his name was richard holmes. my family tells many stories about richard holmes, runaway slave came here to work on the streets of the district of columbia. actually came to get away from slavery. and i don't tell any heroic stories of richard holmes. when nobody was looking, richard holmes just walked off that plantation and found his way to the district of columbia. and there were not enough people to fill the streets of the district of columbia. so he was able to get work on . e streets building this city understand that slave owners went around the streets of the district of columbia looking for their slaves. and the man who owned richard holmes found him. and went up to the straw boss and said that's my slave. i've come to get him. the straw boss said, you called his name -- you called out a name. that man never answered to that name. he is a good worker. he's not your slave. that's how richard holmes whose name was called out, richard, remaped in the district of columbia until i could become eleanor katherin

reserves a fenced in and equipped with also official richard holmes protected and well provided for the big animals have flourished so much so that they've become a problem the elephants trees and shrubs naked often up brushing them in the process and destroying the habitat other animals and plants in the park rely on elephants a particularly partial to one of the park's largest trees the mara. trees are a highly sought after tree by elephants and that's because they got a lot of forage for the elephants and we've seen a lot of impact on these trees and for example in the study site here we've seen a decline of around thirty five percent of the military since being in the system so military is a very important in our ecosystems they provide a lot of food for species that provide habitats and so we know them as a keystone species. the elephants often flattened the religion just so they can get to the leaves but so fall them really is with bees living in them remain largely untouched out of fifty trees only one was damaged during the past year. cook speed project is a new approach in park