{"id":3462,"date":"2014-06-28T19:43:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T02:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2022-02-18T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:41:45","slug":"barrington-moore-to-vestal-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2014\/06\/barrington-moore-to-vestal-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrington Moore to Vestal, 1920"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We must assist, however, by doing all in our power to further this legislation. There is also a concerted movement on foot to open up the Yellowstone National Park so that irrigation reservoirs can be created; this would create a precedent and must be opposed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Barrington Moore to A.G. Vestal, 1920<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In this appeal to A. G. Vestal in 1920, ESA President Barrington Moore reveals that there was a letter-writing campaign from ESA members to congressional nominees, intended to oppose power and irrigation schemes in national parks and monuments. (A. G. Vestal papers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


From the ESA Archives:<\/strong> Moore to Vestal, 1920<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


See more Highlights from the ESA Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We must assist, however, by doing all in our power to further this legislation. There is also a concerted movement on foot to open up the Yellowstone National Park so that irrigation reservoirs can be created; this would create a precedent and must be opposed. In this appeal to A. G. Vestal in 1920, ESA President Barrington Moore reveals that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11104,"featured_media":3482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[35,37],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-archive-highlights","tag-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}