1. What did the army patrol for?
2. What did they do during winter?
3. What park was Young Superintendent of?
4. What accomplishments did he complete?
5. How did they successfully protect the wildlife?
6. How did soldiers deal with sheepherders (i.e. illegal grazing)?
7. What was Muir's view on the military protection? What did he think of government involvement?
8. Was Yosemite Valley protected in 1890?
9. What club was created to protect wildness? Who led it?
10. What did "redeemed from wilderness mean"? Why was this a problem?
11. What did cowboys discover in Southwestern Colorado?
12. Who had built these places and lived there 1000 years earlier?
13. What did Gustaf Nordenskiold do?
14. What did this controversy do for Mesa Verde?
15. What changes did George Bird Grinnell observe? What group did he begin?
16. In what way did he help to guide Roosevelt?
17. What was Pinchot's view of resource protection? What was his job?
18. How did Muir and Pinchot differ in their views on the solution to wilderness protection?
19. Why were birds being killed? What was the fashion trend?
20. Who stepped forward to champion the protection of birds?
21. What did this politician do? What changes took place?
22. Where were birds still at risk and poachers violently killing wardens?
23. Who championed the conservation movement?
24. What wilderness protection did Roosevelt accomplish?
25. What did he experience in Yellowstone?
26. What did Roosevelt proclaim about the Grand Canyon?
27. What was Muir struggling to accomplish in California?
28. Who wanted to meet with Muir? Where did they go touring? How did Muir find time to lobby the president to protect further wilderness?
29. How did this impact Yosemite National Park?
30. What was the nations 6th national park to be protected?
31. What group set out to protect Mesa Verde? Who led this group? What fractured the effort?
32. What other national monuments did Roosevelt protect using the Antiquities Act?
33. What happened with Petrified Forest?
34. What happened in 1908 with the Grand Canyon?
35. Who was opposed to this and why?
36. What controversy threatened Yosemite National Park? What Valley?
37. Describe the fight over the valley in Yosemite.
38. What side did the American public take?
39. What was the positive outcome to defend the parks against a future controversy?
40. What agency was created?
41. For Muir what is "true freedom"?
42. What's your opinion/final thoughts on this film?