Historian Adam M. Sowards traces the impact of two 1872 environmental laws on the national landscape and questions: "How can we square Ulysses S. Grant's contradictory imperatives—to protect the natural world at all costs versus to exploit it without concern?" Courtesy of GPA Photo Archive/Flickr (CC BY 2.0). If you know where to go in Death Valley National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias Park and Preserve, Glacier Peak Wilderness, or Bears Ears National Monument, you might come across the remnants of a tramway or a pile of mine tailings or a rusted tank.

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