The idea of returning Yosemite Valley to federal government control and expanding the park to include its natural watershed acquired its most powerful spokesman with the election of Teddy Roosevelt as U.S. President in 1901. President Roosevelt found a most "bully" pulpit when he visited Yosemite in 1903 and camped with the Sierra Club's founder, John Muir. The two stood for the photograph below at Glacier Point overlooking the valley and Yosemite Falls Yosemite Valley was finally granted back to the federal government in 1905 despite opposition from William Randolph Hearst's newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, and from local business interests. The act by Congress also made adjustments to the park's boundaries conforming them to natural ridge lines and rivers that left the map of Yosemite as we know it today