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George Bird Grinnell: The Father of American Conservation

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George Bird Grinnell: The Father of American Conservation
Los Angeles Audubon Society members studying the marsh wren in the Dominguez Slough, 1918. Public Domain
Dustin Bass
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The parents of George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938) must have had great intuition when they gave him his middle name. Grinnell would become the father of American conservation with a particular affinity for ornithology―the study of birds.

"Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870" (1905). (Public Domain)
"Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870" (1905). Public Domain
Dustin Bass
Dustin Bass
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Dustin Bass is the creator and host of the American Tales podcast, and co-founder of The Sons of History. He writes two weekly series for The Epoch Times: Profiles in History and This Week in History. He is also an author.
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