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Packet 2: Bonus 13

This organization’s leader told Gifford Pinchot "I don't want anything more to do with you" after he proposed allowing sheep grazing in forest reserves. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this environmental organization that helped promote the creation of National Parks. This organization’s founder took a U.S. President on a 1903 tour of Yosemite.
ANSWER: Sierra Club
[10e] Gifford Pinchot was a close personal friend of this adventurous U.S. President who toured Yosemite with John Muir (“myoor”). This naturalist ran under the “Bull Moose” party in 1912.
ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt [or TR; or Teddy Roosevelt; prompt on Roosevelt]
[10m] Muir opposed Pinchot’s advocacy for one of these projects in the Hetch Hetchy Valley by claiming there was “no holier temple” than nature. As a swipe at a political enemy, Harold Ickes (“ICK-iss”) changed the name of one of these projects built by the Bureau of Reclamation.
ANSWER: dams [accept Hoover Dam or O'Shaughnessy Dam; prompt on hydroelectric plants or power plants; prompt on water project or artificial lakes]
<History - American, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 02

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4520.2293%78%31%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BathBirmingham B0101020EM
CambridgeBirmingham A010010E
OxfordSouthperial0101020EM
WarperialSouthampton010010E

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Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓320.0067%100%33%
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VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓422.50100%100%25%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓520.00100%80%20%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓316.67100%67%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓415.00100%50%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓417.50100%50%25%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓516.0060%80%20%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓826.25100%100%63%