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There was another dimension of the young Roosevelt's determined embrace of vigor: his wholehearted encounter with nature, sometimes as a naturalist, sometimes as a hunter. It shaped his life and his enduring image. Nature provided the setting for his struggle to make himself strong, and it opened up a world of scientific discovery at the same time. Roosevelt always remembered the day during his boyhood when he was walking up Broadway and spotted a dead seal on display in a market. Fascinated by the animal, he went back to see it again and again and eventually took its skull...
...women would outnumber men in caps and gowns in the Yard.Two years from now, that day is likely to arrive. Females outnumbered males among freshmen enrolling in the Class of 2008, the Admissions Office reported at the time.And Agassiz, who received no formal education but became a prominent naturalist and educator nonetheless, may never have thought that today, women would outnumber men by a wide margin on college campuses nationwide. But in 2003, there were 1.35 females for every male graduate from a four-year college and 1.3 females for every male undergraduate in the U.S., according to data from...
...overhead. Yet park employees have seen tourists run over alligators with bikes and wheelchairs, throw rocks at them and stab them with sticks. People even put kids on the backs of the creatures for a gator photo op. "The alligator isn't the problem. It's humans," says park naturalist Maria Thomson. "We're pushing them to the limit...
...more than feed the female ego." She developed a high-end T shirt line made of organic cotton, which she sold in Europe. "People were really into what we were doing then," she says. "There was a real void in the market." She calls her customer a "metro-naturalist: someone who is artistic and urban, self-expressive and makes choices out of the norm...
...Wyoming?home not only to Yellowstone National Park but also the Teton Mountains and the National Elk Refuge. Just to the south of these three ecological wonderlands is the 400-hectare Spring Creek Ranch (springcreekranch.com) at Jackson Hole. Under the guidance of Kurt Johnson, the ranch's resident naturalist, and armed with spotting scopes and high-powered binoculars, guests get a backstage pass to Wyoming's majestic menagerie. The kind of activity on view depends on the time of year. May's awkward newborns turn into playful calves during Wyoming's short-lived summer, gamboling through meadows of white phlox...