Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (July 24, 1870 – December 25, 1957) was an American landscape architect and city planner known for his wildlife conservation efforts.

[4][5] After graduating from the Roxbury Latin School in 1890,[6] Olmsted began his design career as an apprentice to his noted father.

He joined other notable architects and designers such as Daniel H. Burnham, Charles F. McKim and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who were charged to "restore and develop the century-old plans of Major L'Enfant for Washington and to fit them to the conditions of today."

This initiated six years of correspondence, including this letter to the president of the Appalachian Mountain Club, dated January 19, 1912: The present situation in regard to the national parks is very bad.

They have been created one at a time by acts of Congress which have not defined at all clearly the purposes for which the lands were to be set apart, nor provided any orderly or efficient means of safeguarding the parks ...

I have made at different times two suggestions, one of which was ... a definition of the purposes for which the national parks and monuments are to be administered by the Bureau.Olmsted recommended the following for the mission, a statement preserved in the National Park Service Organic Act (1916): To conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.Olmsted married Sarah Hall Sharples on March 30, 1911.

[8] In the early 21st century, the Caracas Country Club is the only place in the city where it is possible to have a sense of the valley's original natural landscape.

In the 1920s, he was asked to adapt the lands associated with the former haciendas Blandín, Lecuna, El Samán and La Granja into a residential golf club; Olmsted created a sensitive urban design and landscaping project.

Redwood National Park's Olmsted Grove was dedicated to him in 1953, the same year in which he received the Pugsley Gold Medal.

This article incorporates public domain material from Biography: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. National Park Service.

This article incorporates public domain material from Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.