Meet America's Only Park Ranger President
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- The United States of America has only ever had ONE Park Ranger become President. His name? Gerald Ford. Probably not who you were thinking of, but yes, Gerald Ford is the only President to have worn the famous broad-brimmed hat. A look at his short career with the NPS in this video.
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As well as being the only Eagle Scout to become President.
Loved this video! As an urban planning major you get to understand that there are just some jobs that don't exist but might exist in the future and you could be the first to set the standards if you are passionate about what interests you (hopefully things that benefit rather than deter).
Thanks for watching and couldn't agree more!
Just so you know the reason I didn't pass over you is because you did not hide the lead I like that and I enjoy your videos they're informative and more or less to the point and when you want to pontificate you let us know up front😊
Hahaha, much appreciated! Thanks for watching!
This is a fun one! I'm happy with this continuing series.
I'm so glad - thanks for watching!
Nice! This was a fun thing to learn today. I have a video sugguestion. You might have fun exploring the National Parks Artist in Residence programs as a topic, as well as artists impact on the parks. I'm working on applying myself for it in a year or two, but I noticed some interesting things about it. Publicly they actively have different rules per location and per site which makes sense. But if its so helpful for the parks then why don't all of them do it? Even some of the big parks like Olympic don't, but smaller ones like Lake Whiskey town and Lassen both have one. Yellowstone and Yosemite are by invite only. Some parks use an entirely different system such as Arches doesn't have its own but they have a community based one that blankets 3 parks together. Some parks allow you to have your pet and or your partner with you, and others like Glacier have you say 4 weeks only by yourself. I'm curious what you might find interesting about this particular rabit hole. Love your videos, thanks for sharing your fascinations with us!
Great topic - and one I'm very interested in learning more about! I have it on my list of things to cover! Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching.
@NationalParkDiaries I might also suggest a collaborative with Ranger of the Lost Art (Doug Leen), on the hand drawn NP posters from the 1930’s promotion of the National Parks. Doug is a great historical source for this type of content.
It's funny you mention those posters! Stay tuned 👀
Awesome!!!!❤
I mean let's be honest though, Teddy may as well be an honorary park ranger
100%
You actually made it more interesting by giving up Ford's name in the beginning! Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Very interesting story! I enjoyed learning about that. Thanks for the great content as always :)
Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you for all the awesome content and the amazing video!!!
Thanks, as always, for watching!
Excellent
Thank you!
Should do a video on renaming of all the stuff on public land last year
Great vidoe
Thank you!
I wonder which other presidents would have been if the national park service was created earlier
I was thinking the same thing! I like to imagine GW as a park ranger...
Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Another great video! I was wondering if you were to say your favorite 5 books on the conservation movement in the U.S. , which would that be?
thank you
One of my favorite topics, I'd be happy to share!
1. I'm cheating and technically going with 3 books here, all by Douglas Brinkley: Wilderness Warrior, Rightful Heritage, and Silent Spring Revolution. These 3 books essentially trace the history of the modern environmental/conservation movement through the lens of various presidential administrations. Starts with TR, second one is about FDR, and the third covers JFK, LBJ, and Nixon. REALLY good overview of how the movement evolved and helps you understand the broader social, political, and cultural contexts that were swirling around.
2. Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner - brilliant (and still relevant) book about Western water issues. If you want to understand water in the West, read this book. Rivers of Empire is a more technical/academic companion piece.
3. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold - a classic of environmental literature. Leopold's land ethic is the single biggest influence on how I think about nature, conservation, and the environment today. A must read.
4. Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenburg - traces the history of the "Green World Hypothesis," which is about how much ecosystem dynamics are actually shaped by predators. This argument says that healthy ecosystems have more predators, which keep herbivore populations in check, which allows more vegetation to grow and ultimately produces more overall biodiversity and ecosystem function. It then talks about how our policies/attitudes toward predators over the years have resulted in throwing this dynamic out of balance and how reintroducing predators to landscapes will actually benefit those landscapes in the long run (think Yellowstone wolf reintroduction).
5. The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf - a biography of the great Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. I had never heard of this guy before reading this book, but he was so far ahead of his time in terms of thinking about ecosystems and interdependence and human impacts its insane.
6. I'm cheating again, but I have to throw in Song of the Dodo by David Quammen. It's all about island biogeography and how human land use and development patterns are essentially turning more and more habitats into "islands," which threatens the long term survival of the species in those islands. It's got just as much globe trotting adventure as it does high level scientific explanations, and balances them both very well imo.
Those are some of my favorites, hope this helps!
Thank you so much sir, keep up the good work! @@NationalParkDiaries
@@ulba98 you bet, happy to help!
I'm perplexed. I thought National Parks were there for people to explore and enjoy. So why is Death Valley a National Park? Not much to exlpore or enjoy...
Can you do a video on how teddy Roosevelt decided to create the first national park?
Actually Teddy Roosevelt didn't create the first National Park! Ulysses S. Grant was in office when the first National Park, Yellowstone, was created. But, TR has a long and storied history in US National Parks and across our public lands so I will definitely talk about him at some point!
@@NationalParkDiaries wow I did not know that. I love this channel it has two of my favorite topics nature and history ❤
First comment. Love the channel
Thanks so much for watching!
Yo burnt you forgot about Lyndon Johnson actually being the first president to be unelected (jfk death )
LBJ was on the ticket as VP when JFK was elected
Every President who died in office, from natural causes and from assassination, was succeeded by their elected Vice President. Kennedy is only one of many (WH Harrison, Lincoln, Taylor, Garfield, McKinley, FD Roosevelt, and Harding) US Presidents who died in office and were succeeded by their VP. Ford ascended to the Vice Presidency after the resignation of Spiro Agnew under Nixon. And then after Nixon resigned, Ford moved to the Presidency.
@@NationalParkDiariesSo were Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolige, and Truman.