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Charles Alexander Sheldon (17 October 1867 – 21 September 1928) was an American conservationist and the "Father of Denali National Park".[1] He had a special interest in the bighorn sheep and spent time hunting with the Seri Indians[2] in Sonora, Mexico, who knew him as Maricaana Caamla ("American hunter").[3] Another favorite haunt was the lakes and rivers which later became Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia where Sheldon built a cabin at Beaverskin Lake.[4]
In December 1905, Sheldon was elected member of the Boone and Crockett Club, a wildlife conservation organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell in 1887.[5] The Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Nevada is named in Sheldon's honor, as is Mount Sheldon in Denali National Park.
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