This was not simply a matter of expedience. For some of the project’s backers, it was a moral imperative. Madison Grant, the most devoted patron of the Bronx River Parkway, was a lawyer and conservationist who led efforts to save the redwoods and the bison. He considered these nature’s aristocrats, akin to blue bloods like himself. Just as sublime natural wonders like the Olympic Mountains, the Adirondacks and the Everglades — places Grant helped preserve — were threatened by exploitation, so too was New York City b
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