Wow- that was originally a paper for high school? Wish I wrote like that when I was in high school!! Well done. Very nice read. (And some great prose to boot!)
Very well done indeed. An inspiring read that has given me some hope that we may yet avoid that dystopian future, for the responsibility to preserve what Muir, Marshall, and others fought so hard to achieve will fall on the shoulders of Chase's generation.
You are off to a good start.
Thank you for the article; it was informative and interesting.
The author may want to have it proofread and edited. For example, he seems to confuse the word "equivocate" with "equate" or "be commensurate", perhaps.
Allow me to propose an exercise for other readers.
Muir, Marshall, Leopold … were we to carve a Mount Rushmore style monument commemorating the fathers of the Wilderness Movement, who's would be the fourth face on the mountain?
(NO, the irony of that preposterous idea is not lost on me)
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