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Goodspeed became the official Director of the garden in 1934 and remained the Director until 1957, where he led efforts to cultivate tobacco , the Rhododendron Dell, the New World Desert collection, and the California Redwood Grove (now Stephen J. Mather Redwood Grove). Expeditions to China, the Andes, Southern Africa, Bolivia, Peru ...
Since 1921, the League has established over 1000 redwood memorial groves, in more than thirty of California's redwood parks. One grove is named after Newton B. Drury, who served as executive director of the league as well as serving as the fourth director of the National Park Service. He served in the league's leadership during most of the ...
Stephen Tyng Mather (July 4, 1867 – January 22, 1930) [3] was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service.As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire.
The iconic Garberville estate known as Redwood Grove, designed in 1926 by Hearst Castle architect Julia Morgan, has come on the market at $8,750,000. Located in Northern California's Humboldt ...
When Mather became ill, Albright managed the NPS as acting director. He later served as superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and, for a short time, Yosemite National Park . On October 18, 1922, he was elected Associate Member of the Boone and Crockett Club , a wildlife conservation organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George ...
John Evan Weston-Davies (25 February 1909 – 7 April 1996), known to his friends as Jasper Davies and published as Berkely Mather, was a British writer who wrote fifteen published novels and a book of short stories. He also wrote for radio, television and film.
Mather (/ ˈ m eɪ. θ ər / MAY-ther) is a census-designated place in Sacramento County, California. [2] Mather sits at an elevation of 108 feet (33 m). [2] The 2010 United States census reported Mather's population was 4,451. It is the site of the former Mather Air Force Base, closed by the federal government in 1993.
Lane was intrigued by Mather's letter, made inquiry, and found that Mather was well thought of by Lane's friends—and had, like Lane, attended the University of California. [60] Mather's advocacy led to the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. In 1915, Lane returned to San Francisco to open the Panama-Pacific International ...