yellowstone. it it probably saved the national park. the fact that there wasn't a gold strike or we didn't have a gold strike there, instead of the national park. so bozeman very early became an outfitting point for yellowstone, as did virginia city. and i think that's the that's the key connection, is that those two towns as early as 1880 were in a kind of a competition. and virginia city quickly lost that battle of being an outfitting point. they were just too far away. bozeman. only 75 miles away from the north entrance, sort of won that battle. yellowstone was already effectively the first state attraction. and for tourists in the interior of the american west, that's pretty significant. that's a big deal. it and part of that impetus occurred because they were teaching the existence of yellowstone in schools in europe before, almost before they were doing it on the east coast in this country. and so by the time the railroad arrived at the north entrance in 1883, yellowstone was world famous already. and everybody wanted to come and s

, the flowers all reserved for you. >> established in 1872 by the united states congress yellowstone national park the world's first national park encompassing land from three states, idaho, montana and wyoming. bosman, montana sits 75 miles north of the park, we spoke about his career and the impact the park had on the region. >> tell us about your first yellowstone experience. >> my gosh, my first yellowstone experience reaches far back and like for so many americans, it was a vacation. i was four and my parents brought us, my brother and me, to yellowstone from norman, oklahoma, our hometown, and continued bringing us for many years and so we were always interested in not just yellowstone, but the whole american west and so we fell into that trap of never going east no matter what mother wanted to do, except always going west because mostly dad wanted to fish in yellowstone. so, we fell in love with the region early and had relatives in montana, which added to it. very early experience. and when i was 16 and my brother 14, we vacationed here and we saw the employees and one of them invited us t

and mountains are reserved for you. >>> established in 1872 by the united states congress, yellowstone national park was the world's first national park encompassing land from. three states. idaho, montana and wyoming. the park as an economic driver for the towns that surround it. while in bozeman, montana, that sits up to 75 miles north of the park, we spoke with former park historian about his career and the impact the park has had on the region. >> tell us about your first yellowstone experience. >> my first yellowstone experience. it reaches way back and like for so many americans, it was a vacation. i was 4-years-old and my parents brought us, my mother and me to yellowstone from norman oklahoma, our hometown, and continued bringing us for many years. so we were always interested in not just yellowstone but the whole american west, so we fell into that trap of never going east no matter what mother wanted to do except just always going west was mostly dad wanted to fish and yellowstone. so we fell in love with of the region early and had relatives in montana, which added to it. very early exper

. ♪♪ >> one of our most publications, yellowstone national park. montana in the bank of the worldea greatest museum, thy are reserved for you. >> established in 1872 by the united states congress yellowstone national park was the world's first national park. encompassing land from three straight, idaho, montana and wyoming, is an economic driver returns that surrounded. we spoke with former historian is the impact on the region. >> my first yellowstone experience will reach its way back and whose so many americans it was vacation, i was for and my brother yellowstone from oklahoma and bring this for many years so we were always interestedlo in not just yellowstone but the whole american west so we fell into the trap, just always going crest. the most that wanted to fish and yellowstone so we fell in love with the region. when i was 16 or 14, we vacationed here and saw employees and one invited into a dance. we were too young for dance and saw all the fun they were having a biden yellowstone. i should correct that. it didn't come until a little later

you if you remember the slide of all of those groups that are involved and and, you know, yellowstone national park has established relationships 26 tribal nations with connection. to yellowstone there's not just one group and so it's not like one. indigenous nation ceded that entire land or had it taken from them by the us government. it was a shared space. so it actually wasn't covered by any kind of treaty making so the federal government just you know, there was nothing standing in their way, right and but there was a kind of shared ownership and i think what will happen instead and i'm and i'm very hopeful about this actually because of the way that the park is is handling the 150th and increasing its attention to indigenous presence in history. is that members of those tribal nations will get more of a say that they will be they'll get a seat at the table. they'll get to kind of talk about the park moving forward talk about how to integrate indigenous histories into this into this landscape and into the tourist experience of the park. i mean one of the things that we've been talking about i'm

you if you remember the slide of all of those groups that are involved and and, you know, yellowstone national park has established relationships 26 tribal nations with connection. to yellowstone there's not just one group and so it's not like one. indigenous nation ceded that entire land or had it taken from them by the us government. it was a shared space. so it actually wasn't covered by any kind of treaty making so the federal government just you know, there was nothing standing in their way, right and but there was a kind of shared ownership and i think what will happen instead and i'm and i'm very hopeful about this actually because of the way that the park is is handling the 150th and increasing its attention to indigenous presence in history. is that members of those tribal nations will get more of a say that they will be they'll get a seat at the table. they'll get to kind of talk about the park moving forward talk about how to integrate indigenous histories into this into this landscape and into the tourist experience of the park. i mean one of the things that we've been talking about i'm

some credit the visibility of the park to the hit tv show "yellowstone." the nationalay to take care of the environment is to respect the environment. and that means all creatures that live within it. no matter what the wild animal is, give it the space it needs and that is a good part of being a good environmentalist, respecting wildlife. >> how many bears are they expected to capture and study? >> it is actually hard to say. they're hoping to study as many bears as they can in this two-month period experts say, though, they could gather quite a bit of helpful data from one bear any data is better than no data at all trends they see in just a few bears can lead to scientific conclusions about the larger population that can help with c conservation efforts and policy decisions. >> so incredible to see. kaylee, thank you. >>> time for another check of the weather. busy day for you. >> it is we have been talking about storm surge. this could be historic 8 to 12 feet 2 to 5 feet as you get in the furthest parts of southern florida. crashing waves can cause significant dam

releasing them from yellowstone national park requires years of quarantine. that is tonight, here on the cbs evening news. >>> we are getting our first look at the largest octopus garden in the world in monterey county, about 20,000 per octopi are growing in the garden about 280 miles off moss landing. researchers stumbled onto it by accident. they founded in 2018 while surveying an extinct underwater volcano. they have since discovered that the octopi are driven by the relatively warm 51 degree water, which speeds up the development process. octopus eggs can take up to 15 years to hatch and hear it takes just under two years. >>> the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell's up next and ryan is back in 30 minutes with cbs news bay ea at 7:0 ♪ ♪ >> norah: breaking news that donald trump becomes the first former american president to surrender, walking through the jail as a defendant. tonight the new details as he is booked on 13 felony charges, here are tonight's headlines. ♪ ♪

first scientific expiration ofhi yellowstone whih led to the passage of the yellowstone act in 1872 creating the first national parkworld 150 years ago. in my new book "saving yellowstone" i tell the story of hayden's expedition and the interweave the story with two other narratives. the narrative of capital investment in the white settlement of the west, and the story of indigenousta resistance to those efforts of government officials,nd your soldiers, businessmen and scientists to take their homelands from them. so in this moment of 1871-72 yellowstone became an iconic landscape in america. it also became a metaphor for the nation itself, a place that was both a a beautiful and terrible. the question i always want to ask of people in the audience is when did you go first to yellowstone, or have you been there? so we have a quiz for you, and audience poll. min arrested to see how many of you have actually been there and ifif you visited the park when s your trip, did c you go as a child, did you go as an adult with your own children? was a i recently or was it real, really long ago? as you can see from these slide

he's all the yellowstone expedition into the national park that yellowstone became.hehe was wrong about that. he didn't anticipate that another figure of the period would be workingng against him n the region. this is just, t sorry i should have gone to the slide. this is two examples of the way he was using advertising in newspapers to gin up some enthusiasm for the northern norn pacific in the 1871. the man standing in his way was the chief born in the 1830s along the missouri river to a family of war chiefs and community leaders. a sitting bull was a member of the lakota who were themselves one part of the seven council flyers known at the time as the sioux. he established himself not only against the traditional enemies but also fights against u.s. soldiers. he began to appear in u.s. official documents in the late 1860s as indian agency and army officers and civil officials were beginning to take note of his leadership and his growing power. during this period he consistently asserted the rights to their homeland along the valley and sovereignty of the people. t

more pertinent to our events today, he was a horse back yellowstone guide and yellowstone national park. that was one of his first jobs but you didn't come here to hear me. you came to hear the man and that's why i'm letting him duothe talking now. >> thank you all for coming. what a trait for me to show review and trying to put yellowstone park 150 years in 45 minutes is really tough. >> i have my love of yellowstone. i call it my backyard. franked wow. would let me drive the pickup at the age of 10 to yellowstone as long as i i remembered all the streams, mountains and rock formations. fio missed one, he lit early intervention program and i learned quickly. i didn't know why. these are some of the people we've gotten the photograph for the presentation. that encompasses 150 years and the photograph her dad took of me atin this point and i had jut gone in the marine corp. and had come back on leave and had came to my mind that frost and fred richard and the family are in five generations of yellowstone for 138 years. that's quite a bit of time. this is some of the photograph i've taken

scientists at yellowstone national park have caught wolves returned to their dens with toys for their pups. the park says pups wait for food deliveries from successful hunts. but when there's no food to find, the adults bring back toys. park officials say the instinct to bring items back may be reinforced by evolution, and it probably helps them from getting mobbed by their fangs of their babies. some san jose business owners say a fire deliberately set at a sushi restaurant is evidence more needs to be done to prevent break ins. ktvu is an rubin tells us city officials are taking downtown safety improvements very seriously. what cameras captured the moment an arsonist tried to burn down san jose's sushi confidential. the man jumped a fence, broke some lights and took a lighter to the stage edge. through that fabric you could see a light and then the light just starts growing and growing. within minutes, the back patio was ablaze. he immediately got panicked and ran over here and broke through the glass doors, utilizing a fire extinguisher. the man smashed three glass doors on his way

so you have the wildest lands, the yellowstone national parks at one end, where you don't need so muchut you can also rewild your garden, your window box, your roadside verges. all of us have a part to play in restoring nature across the landscape, and we have to connect, too. you've just written a new book, a sort of practical guide to rewilding. it's upset some people because your message is that everybody sort of has a responsibility to engage in this notion of rewilding, of sort of rebuilding ecosystems. and some who garden, who love gardening, who think that the human intervention in their little green space is what makes it beautiful, have said that your notion of letting it all go wild runs contrary to everything that the spirit of gardening represents. what's your message to them? well, i would say that we need to really understand how ecosystems work. we really need to put nature at the forefront of our minds, even when we're gardening. so, if you understand how a system works, if you look at the wider countryside and you see how dysfunctional and unstable and at risk it is fr

or pertinent to our pins today he was a horseback yellowstone guide at yellowstone national park. that was one of his first jobs but i know you didn't come here to seei' me came here to hear te man and that's what i'm going to give you bob richard. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. what a treat for me to share with you try to put yellowstone park 150 years in 45 minutes. it's really tough and i took lots of photographs. i mixed in my love of yellowstone. i call it my backyard. and he let me drive the pickup at the age of 10 to yellowstone as long as i've remembered all the streets of the mountains and if i missed one he lit up a big cigar and i had to sit between he and my dad is a lengthy yellowstonedi so i did it quicky and i didn't know why. these are some of the people where we have gotten afford the 40 graphs for today's presentation. that encompasses 150 years. this is a photograph that dad took of me at this point and i had just gone into the mclaurin came back on leave and he came to my mind that frost and fred richards and five generations have been in yellowstone f

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yellowstone national park. that was one of his first jobs. but i know you didn't come here to hear me. you came here to hear the man. and that's why i'm going to give you bob. richard. thank you all for coming. oh, what a treat for me to share with you and trying to put yellowstone park 150 years in 45 minutes is really tough. and i looked at lots of ned frost photographs, ifj, hayden's photographs. jack, richard, fred richard photographs some of my own and i have mixed in my love of yellowstone. my i call it my backyard granddad would let me drive the pick up at the age of ten to yellowstone as long as i remember it. all the streams, all the mountains and all the rock formation. and if i missed one, then he lit up a big black cigar and it was a jaguar. and i had to sit between he and my grandmother when we went to yellowstone. so i learned quickly. i didn't know why. these are some of the people and where we've gotten the photographs that are in today's presentation. that encompass. 150 years. this is a photograph that the dad took of me and

dakota were themselves part of the great sioux reservation and established four years before yellowstone national parkas created in 1889. a government commissioned strong arm, the lakota sioux and to selling 9 million acres of their land, including the badlands, at which point they became part of the public domain. in 1922, the first congressional bill was introduced to create an entity called wonderland national park in the western reaches of south dakota, not many settlers may have wanted to live in the badlands anymore, but someone was betting that people would want to come and marvel at their mysterious beauty. a paradox about the national park service is worth noting here. it's a conservation action bureau charged with a mission to expand in other words, entrusted with protecting public land. the nps also aims to acquire it >> through donation, purchase, and eminent domain. and eminent domain. the agenda was likely to create hard feelings sooner in the indian country. our parks are natural of course but humanly shaped. stocked with large items and promoted to represent untamed wilderness. theca p

south dakota were themselves part of the greatow reservation established four years before yellowstone national park was created. in 1889 a government commission strong-armed into selling 9 million acres of theirir land including the badlands. at which point they became part of the public domain. in 1922, the first congressional bill was introduced to create an entity called wonderland national park in the western regions of south dakota. not many settlers may have wanted to live in the badlands anymore, butom someone was bettg that people would want to come and marvel at their mysterious beauty. a paradoxa about the national park service is worth noting here. it is a conservation bureau charged with admission to expand in other words, entrusted with protect public land, they also aim to acquire it. through donation, purchase, exchange and eminent domain. when you think about it, such an expansive agenda was likely to create hard feelings sooner or later in indian country. our parksks are natural, of coue but they are also humanly shaped stocked with large ungulates, old railroad hotels the parts ca

comparable to the size of the state of connecticut and also comparable to glacier and yellowstone national parks >> it is big. >> the big chunk of land is mostly north of the missouri river in north central montana, one of the most remote parts of the country. it's a patchwork of privately owned cattle ranches and land owned by the government, including a huge existing national wildlife refuge named after the famous "cowboy painter" charles m. russell. >> and that 1.1 million acres serves as the anchor of american prairie's 3.2 million acre vision. >> and so you've got these big chunks of federal land. and you're buying land in between to try to piece it all together? >> exactly. >> so just about every time a private ranch comes up for sale inside its desired "footprint" american prairie tries to buy it, to add another piece to its puzzle and preserve more grassland. >> how many ranches have you purchased? >> we have purchased 34 ranches. >> to buy all those ranches, american prairie has raised nearly $200 million from more than 4,000 donors, including wall street financiers and technology mogul

scientists at yellowstone national park have documented adult wolves returning to their dens with toys the mollie's lingand they're taking it all the way back to their den with some interesting items can see what's in there, miles. there pups await food deliveries from successful hunts. but in the absence of food, the adults are bringing back toys according to the park, the instinct to bring items back to the dan may be reinforced by evolution and probably helps keep the adults from being mobbed by sharp little puppy teeth. yellowstone, wolf packs typically have one litter of 4 to 5 pups each year. pups that survive the long winters can learn to help the pack hunt large prey like elk and bison and then will help raise the packs. next litter of pups delivering food and sometimes maybe toys are sticks. happening this weekend, a team of researchers is determined to track down the mysterious lock ness monster of the largest search and more than 50 years will be happening for this legendary sea creature. it's set to start this weekend. nessie has been a mystery for more than 1500 years. dro

badlands of south dakota were part of the great reservation established four yearse before yellowstone national park was created. they became part of the public domain.ll the entity called wonderland national park. the paradox about the national park service worth noting, it's a conservation charged with a mission to expand. entrusted with protecting public land, it aims to acquire it through donation, purchase, exchange and eminent domain. expense of an agenda is likely to create hard feelings sooner or later. they are naturalal but humanly shaped. were tours with the scent of rain having prehistoric past. the human beings to 1 degree or another for generations. the designation in the national acreso a maximum of 50000 in seven years later in the midst of the great depression congress authorized monument boundaries to extend to five times the original area including the edition of declared sub marginal or unproductive.gh in 1942, washington, the war department announced plans to confiscate a chunk of reservation adjacent too the monument. 43 miles long by 12 miles. forty-three by 12, roughly 350,00

. >>> and biologists at yellowstone national park documented these adult wolves traveling back to theirs with toys for their pups. >>> finally, in ohio, a second grader got a big surprise on his first day back at school. inside the costume was his dad who has been deployed overseas for the past year. welcome home, sergeant. >> love to see those. that's quite the reaction time. that mask was off. >> bear hug for his dad. >> those never get old. >>> still to come on "today," simone biles is soaring again, off to an incredible start at this weekend's u.s. gymnastics championships. can the g.o.a.t. continue her comeback all the way to paris >>> good morning. thanks for joining us on this saturday, august 26th. i'm kira klapper. >>> more fallout from the racist text scandal involving east bay police officers. now the fate of a murder trial may hang in the balance. a contra costa county judge ruled the antioch officers who investigated the murder violated the racial justice act by exchanging racist texts during the investigation. now the judge will decide whether the murder case can continue.

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scientists at the yellowstone national park have caught wolves returning to their dens with toys for t when there is no food to find the adults, bring back some toys. park officials say the instinct to bring items back may be reinforced by evolution. well the warm weather we're now getting, it's bringing back a serious warning for you parents. the water safety reminder after two young kids in the east bay almost drowned. plus, eventually , if he's serious, he's going to have to start showing up for these debates. well the first debate of the 2024 primary season did not feature former president donald trump. we'll tell you what the other republican candidates who want to win the presidency, president , he said on that debate stage from ktvu fox two news. this is mornings on two. well, good morning to you and we thank you for joining us. welcome to mornings on two. i'm dave clark. good morning. i'm pam cook. thursday morning, august 24th. definitely too hot for me. it was more than 100 degrees where i was. well, then i'm glad i was closer to the coast. rosemary. hopefully we find some m

national park. we bring our own ideas of what the national park is supposed to be and we don't remember seeing cows in yosemite or yellowstoner i the other national iconic parks. so then again it becomes this self replicating cycle where people question the original residents and why they are still in place. they don't know the story of how they got. so then sort of advocating for them to be moved out and there've been a number of lawsuits in recent years trying to push the main remaining residents out of the park. closing with an image of the pastoral landscape remember all landscapes have history and even places we think of as natural landscapes have histories that often is quite invisible to us as a viewer. they were shaped by other people's lives whether that be native americans were more recent settlers like the ranchers. and i think that there isha a nd to have if not a formal recognition at least the respect forr the ways in which the work has literally made these places. the reason that there are grassy fields this time of year is because of the miwok burning for hundreds of thousands of years and then because the ca

national park service. what was on the cover of the law school brochure hosts more visitors annually than any other national park. worthen yellowstone or yosemite. as a history professor, thomas alexander, who are taught more than half a century ago, the utah national parks have, quote, the hearty approval of most utah funds. another example, don colton utah congressman, also a republican, was a leading proponent of the legislation that paved the way for lands managed by the bureau of land management be safeguarded in national ownership. had he not lost his bid for reelection in the depths of the great depression in 1932, it would have been called the colton grazing act. around the same time in the 1930s congress was expanding programs to purchase private land back into national ownership. primarily comfort conservation and environmental restoration. most of the protected public lands, parks, forests in the eastern half of the country required for the consent of the state involved. in fact, south florida and texas, two iconic national parks, everglades, they were acquired by the state themselves from private owners with state taxpay

national park. again we bring our own ideas of what national park is supposed to be but we don't ever seeing cows in yosemite or yellowstoneany of the other big national iconic parks. again a self replicating cycle people question the original residents of this park and why they are still in place for they do not know the story of how they got there. and so advocate for them to move out. there's been a number of lawsuits in recentt years trying to more actively push some the last remaining relatives out of the park. so, one of things i want closing here is remembering all landscapes have history. even places of natural landscape have history. invisible to us as a viewer. these places were shaped by others people's lives with its native americans sellers like the ranchers it portrays. at least a respect for the ways in which their work has literally made these places. the reason their grassy fields at a point rate which are very green this time of year very lush is because of the miwok burning for hundreds of thousands of years. and because cattle ranching has been taken place since then. pick the cattleff off, the burng of

national park? because again, we bring our own ideas of what a national park is supposed to be and we don't. seeing cows in yosemite or in yellowstonether sort of big national iconic. so then it again becomes a self-replicating cycle where people question the original residents of this park and why they're still in place. they don't know the story of how they got there. and so then sort of advocate for them to be moved out. and there's been a number of lawsuits in recent years trying to more actively some of the the last remaining out of the park. so one of the things i want you to you know, this closing here with this image of the of pastoral landscape at point raise is remembering that all landscapes have histories and even places that we think of as natural landscapes have histories that is quite invisible to us as. a as a viewer, these places were shaped by other people's lives, whether that be native americans. more recent settlers, like the ranchers at point raise. and i think there's a need to have, if not a formal recognition of their relationship with the landscape, at least a respect for the the ways in which their work ha

national park idea. where did the idea come from. they did arrive spontaneous during camp are in 1870 on the yellowstone plateau. that's been the official store for many years. as an adept something to do with teddy roosevelt or john muir and why we talk about olmsted. wasn't he a part designer and national parks are usually come to use come to mind as design landscapes. he designed central park, the arnold arboretum, et cetera. what does it have to do with national parks? these are questions that rolf and and i have been plagued with our entire professional lives. [laughing] so we decided to writete this book. i don't know if this is the last word or not, rolf, but hopefully, hopefully. the term national park idea that is in our title is a bit misleading because we're here to talk about the public park idea as it took shape specifically in the united states in the mid-19th century including urban and national parks. as i hope we shall in the book there was a broader idea public parks that was a source of the national park idea. even if we want to consider that a separate idea at all, they are obviously linked. o

teen years or that they were the father, the inspiration for national parks, which had been created 30 years earlier, if you take it to yellowstoneen earlier if you go back to yosemite, it is a stretch. >> it is ironic and it is misleading. always very much against creating a national park service all right. >> how many have been invited out to yosemite for that anniversary? i have read that pamphlet many many times. olmsted usesse the phrase it is the duty of the government to provide these open spaces for all people. and, for me, this is the problem of the age. massachusetts and across the country, the governments, the state governments, the city governments in the national government are not coming near what we need. and therefore i think we should really focus upon that olmsted was an organizer. he brought to the meetings that he held out there people from newspapers. that made a big impact towards niagara falls. >> you just showed that picture. >> i understand. i am not arguing with all your facts and all that you are saying. i am simply focusing on his duty of the government. >> i could not agree more, jerry >> then i have

timely reinterpretation of the national park idea, or did the idea for thehe national park system come from? did it arrive some spontaneous rate can't turn 1870 on the yellowstone plateau? that is been the official story for many years. doesn't have something to teddy roosevelt or jon muir? why are we talking olmsted was in the park designer and national parks are usually come to mind as designed landscapes. he designed central park, arboretum et cetera what is iton heavy of national parks? these are questions that rolf and i've been plagued with our entire professional. that's why we decided to write this book. i don't know if this is the last word or not. hopefully, hopefully. the term national park idea that's in our title is a bit misleading. we're really here to talk about the public park idea that took shape specifically in the united states in the mid- 19th century. precluding urban andnational pa. and because i do, i hope we show the book does a broader idea of public parks ocs source the national park idea. even if we want to consider that a separate idea at all they are linked for the goal is to put yosemite valley into the historical context of the g

national park? because again, we bring our own ideas of what a national park is supposed to be and we don't. seeing cows in yosemite or in yellowstone or of the other sort of big national iconic. so then it again becomes a self-replicating cycle where people question the original residents of this park and why they're still in place. they don't know the story of how they got there. and so then sort of advocate for them to be moved out. and there's been a number of lawsuits in recent years trying to more actively some of the the last remaining out of the park. so one of the things i want you to you know, this closing here with this image of the of pastoral landscape at point raise is remembering that all landscapes have histories and even places that we think of as natural landscapes have histories that is quite invisible to us as. a as a viewer, these places were shaped by other people's lives, whether that be native americans. more recent settlers, like the ranchers at point raise. and i think there's a need to have, if not a formal recognition of their relationship with the landscape, at least a respect for the the ways in which t

national park idea. where did the idea for the national system come from? did it arise spontaneously during campfire in 1870 on the yellowstone plateau. that's sort of been the official story for many years. and doesn't it have something to do with teddy roosevelt or john muir? and why are we talking about wasn't he a park designer and national parks don't aren't usually don't usually come to mind is designed. he central park the arnold arboretum etc. what does that have to do with national parks? well, these are questions that ralph and i have been plagued with our entire professional lives. and so we decided to write this book and hope i don't know, maybe i don't know if this is the last word or not, ralph. but but but hopefully, hopefully the term national park idea is in our title is a bit misleading because we're really here to talk about the public park idea as it took shape specifically in the united states in the mid-19th century, including urban and national parks and as i hope we show in the book, there was a broader idea of public parks that was the source of the national park idea. and even if we want even if we w

national park idea. where did the idea for the national system come from? did it arise spontaneously during campfire in 1870 on the yellowstone plateau. that's sort of been the official story for many years. and doesn't it have something to do with teddy roosevelt or john muir? and why are we talking about wasn't he a park designer and national parks don't aren't usually don't usually come to mind is designed. he central park the arnold arboretum etc. what does that have to do with national parks? well, these are questions that ralph and i have been plagued with our entire professional lives. and so we decided to write this book and hope i don't know, maybe i don't know if this is the last word or not, ralph. but but but hopefully, hopefully the term national park idea is in our title is a bit misleading because we're really here to talk about the public park idea as it took shape specifically in the united states in the mid-19th century, including urban and national parks and as i hope we show in the book, there was a broader idea of public parks that was the source of the national park idea. and even if we want even if we w