Richard Hu
Quantitative Technologist @ Radix Trading
Public Lands
Below are images I’ve taken on some of the public lands that are marked for sale by H.R. 1: One Big Beautiful Bill Act. These places represent a uniquely American approach to wilderness and land management.
It was the genius of Americans like John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt to understand that our rivers, valleys, forests, and mountains did not need improving by mankind, and that it was a far, far better thing to do to leave them untouched—to let the forces of the Earth and the universe carve and shape them like they had done for the tens of millions of years prior.
We owe it to them and to this country to keep these places special and untouched so that some day far in the future, some American that none of us will ever meet can wander into an alpine meadow dotted with pink, red, purple, and yellow wildflowers, or listen to the deafening crash of a majestic waterful gushing over the wall of a glacier valley, or lay their fingertips on the rough, weathered bark of a tree that took root before the birth of Jesus Christ, and feel the same tranquility, awe, and inspiration that Roosevelt, Muir, and I felt in those places.
