George Meléndez WrightThe first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks. When twenty three year old George Melndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalistthe first Hispanic person to occupy any professional position in the National Park Service (NPS)he had already visited every national park in the western United States, including McKinley (now Denali)