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Roosevelt's Great Loop Tour
Theodore roosevelt was on a tour of the west. He stopped in San Francisco to meet john mure, an old man who dedicated his life to experiencing and preserving nature. Mure had successfully campaigned to protect the meadows surrounding the yosemite valley by getting congress to turn them into a national park. But the move hadn't included the valley itself or the mariposa grove discovered by gale and clark. They had stayed under state control. The naturalist wanted roosevelt to do something about it. After taking a group photo next to the trunk of the oldest sequoia in the park, virtually all the presidential party headed back to the wawona
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