Grand Canyon # 2 - Mather Point Overlook
by Allen Beatty
Title
Grand Canyon # 2 - Mather Point Overlook
Artist
Allen Beatty
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona was named as an official national park in 1919, but the landmark had been well known to Americans for over thirty years prior. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the site and said: "The Grand Canyon fills me with awe. It is beyond comparison,beyond description; absolutely unparalleled throughout the wide world... Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is. Do nothing to mar its grandeur, sublimity and loveliness. You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see."
Despite Roosevelt's enthusiasm and his strong interest in preserving land for public use, the Grand Canyon was not immediately designated a national park. The first bill to create Grand Canyon National Park was introduced in 1882 by then-Senator Benjamin Harrison, which would have made Grand Canyon National Park the nation's second, after Yellowstone National Park. Harrison unsuccessfully reintroduced his bill in 1883 and 1886; after his election to the presidency, he established the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in 1893. Theodore Roosevelt created the Grand Canyon Game Preserve by proclamation in 1906 and Grand Canyon National Monument in 1908. Further Senate bills to establish the site as a national park were introduced and defeated in 1910 and 1911, before the Grand Canyon National Park Act was finally signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919. The National Park Service, established in 1916, assumed administration of the park.
The creation of the park was an early success of the conservation movement. Its national park status may have helped thwart proposals to dam the Colorado River within its boundaries. (Later, the Glen Canyon Dam would be built upriver.) In 1975, the former Marble Canyon National Monument, which followed the Colorado River northeast from the Grand Canyon to Lee's Ferry, was made part of Grand Canyon National Park. In 1979, UNESCO declared the park a World Heritage Site.
In 2010, Grand Canyon National Park was honored with its own coin under the America the Beautiful Quarters program.
This image is Featured in the following FAA groups:
500 And Beyond Fine Art,
10 Plus,
The 200 Club,
All Natural Beauty of this World,
All Red Rock Country,
Grand Canyon National Park,
Images That Excite You,
Nature's Amazing Beauty,
500 Views On 1 Image,
Arizona Images - For Sale,
Comment for Comment,
1000 Views On 1 Image,
100 Favorite,
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April 3rd, 2011
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Comments (144)
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups Special Features Nominations For Promotion #23 . Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views Group....L/F/Tw
Geraldine Scull
Wonderful lighting and landscape scenic view Allen, nominating in the 1000 Views Group for a Special Feature ! L/t
Alex Mir
Congratulations, Allen! Your outstanding photograph is now featured in the 100 Favorite group! Fav/Ig
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Allen Beatty replied:
Christopher, thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the 1000 Views On 1 Image Group