Ronald reagan president ial foundation and institute thank you for coming this evening. In honor of men and women in uniform defending freedom around the world please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [cheers and applause] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] before we get started theres people i would like to recognize this evening i will start with the mayor and his wife shelby. [applause] former congressman and his wife and charlie kirk is here founder of turning point usa. [cheers and applause] and i know he is supposed to be where is pat . We have a great evening in store for you so i will be very brief before i introduce our special guests who will introduce our speakers want to take a moment to thank a handful of other people we have in our audience this evening who are representing some of americas finest. To
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] before we get started theres people i would like to recognize this evening i will start with the mayor and his wife shelby. [applause] former congressman and his wife and charlie kirk is here founder of turning point usa. [cheers and applause] and i know he is supposed to be where is pat . We have a great evening in store for you so i will be very brief before i introduce our special guests who will introduce our speakers want to take a moment to thank a handful of other people we have in our audience this evening who are representing some of americas finest. To those of you who may have arrived late you might not have seen the beautiful landscape the incredible hilltop we are perched on looks like the moon in Southern California the trees and the greenery that surrounds us is gone you may even
[applause] good evening everyone. I have the honor of being the executive director from the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute thank you for coming this evening. In honor of men and women in uniform defending freedom around the world please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [cheers and applause] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] before we get started theres people i would like to recognize this evening i will start with the mayor and his wife shelby. [applause] former congressman and his wife and charlie kirk is here founder of turning point usa. [cheers and applause] and i know he is supposed to be where is pat . We have a great evening in store for you so i will be very brief before i introduce our special guests who will introduce our speakers want to take a moment to thank a handful of other p
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] before we get started theres people i would like to recognize this evening i will start with the mayor and his wife shelby. [applause] former congressman and his wife and charlie kirk is here founder of turning point usa. [cheers and applause] and i know he is supposed to be where is pat . We have a great evening in store for you so i will be very brief before i introduce our special guests who will introduce our speakers want to take a moment to thank a handful of other people we have in our audience this evening who are representing some of americas finest. To those of you who may have arrived late you might not have seen the beautiful landscape the incredible hilltop we are perched on looks like the moon in Southern California the trees and the greenery that surrounds us is gone you may even
Had a good day yesterday. I certainly did. We can talk about it later. Today, we look at the Environmental Impact of the California Gold rush. , he said, you know, the story only asks one question. Whats going on here. He is absolutely right. Thing we have. We go back and say, whats going on. Lots of stuff. I hope you are getting that idea so far. The environment itself was being fundamentally changed, remade. Was an episode of expansion. S a very dramatic with the gadsden purchase. We have the contiguous 48 states. But whatis part of it, i want to begin, the california the rush will and all of California Gold rush and silver rushes were fundamentally different as western expansion into ways. First of all, they transform the environment in radically new ways, different ways. The bulk of the presentation will deal with that. We will go back to our hypothetical frontier Family Moving from North Carolina into tennessee. They were changing the environment, cutting down trees, bringing Dome