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Show 45 Valley of Yosemite. Hearst even published a special edition of the paper touting the benefits of a new reservoir. He saw that every member of Congress received a copy. 120 The San Francisco Examiner and The New York Times also were selected for this research to give perspective in relation to Utah's newspapers. Environmental historians have used the scarcity theory of value to explain how in 1890, after the census declared the frontier closed, the push for federal protection of public land came from the larger population centers of the country. Researchers point to these same population centers as the birthplace of the modern conceptions of conservation and wilderness. 121 These newspapers provide a perspective from large population centers on each coast - The New York Times, a paper with national appeal, published in the largest urban center of the nation, and The San Francisco Examiner, a regional paper in one of the largest urban centers in the West. The Salt lake Tribune has kept an index since 1941; the Deseret News has no index. This research relies in part on The Salt lake Tribune index and the archives of the two newspapers published outside the state to retrieve articles for editions of the Deseret News published after 1941. For each relevant article found in 71ie Salt Lake Tribune index, or one of the two out-of-state newspapers, the research examines the full editions of the Deseret News published on the same day, one day before, and one day after. This method is based on the idea that much of the news coverage is event-based congressional action, dedications, visiting dignitaries, protests, press conferences, etc. and both newspapers would cover those events on or near the same day. During months llO lbid.,123-4. 121 Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 96- 100 |
