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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical ParkA large maple stands in stark contrast to the stand of younger trees behind. Snow makes this color photo appear black and white. NPS Photo.
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Stories

Conservation Timeline

A visual look at the events that have shaped America's conservationist history, with a special emphasis on personalities associated with the park.


 

Stewardship Stories

Conservation in today's world is shaped by the grassroots efforts of people making conservation part of the fabric of their everyday lives. In partnership with the Orion Society, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park interviewed a number of individuals who have put their conservationist vision into practice. Visitors to the park can view a series of photographic panels, which hang in the Carriage Barn Visitor Center, depicting some of these contemporary stories of stewardship. They are personal stories that speak to the spiritual connections made when people decide to take care of the places where they live, and while their circumstances may vary widely, the impulse to be good stewards and good citizens is universal.

The conservationists featured in the exhibit, entitled Conservation Stewardship: People Taking Care of Places, live in rural, urban, and suburban areas, and have gone about protecting their environments in a variety of ways. Click on the links below to read and hear them speak about their experiences.

Black and white Carleton Watkins photograph, showing Yosemite's massive granite Cathedral Rock. Billings Family Archives.  

Did You Know?
In the early 1860s Vermonter Frederick Billings, then living in California, purchased and sent photographs of Yosemite Valley to influential eastern friends to make the case for its preservation. You can see these photographs, and paintings of Yosemite, at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP.

Last Updated: February 12, 2008 at 14:39 EST