Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution To Natural Resources

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and items such as bird nests, insects, minerals, and shells were added to the Museum�s collection. At age thirteen Roosevelt took lessons in taxidermy and started a book-study on mammals and birds. In Roosevelt�s freshman year of college at Harvard, he intended to become an outdoor naturalist. Discouragement in the naturalist field instead led him to politics, where his interests could translate into more visible activism.
In 1881, Roosevelt was elected to the New York State Assembly, and in December of 1887 he hosted a dinner for ten of his sportsmen friends. The group recognized that the extinction of the buffalo and the passenger pigeon could easily happen to any other species. A decision to control market hunting and provide wildlife the ability to coexist with man was made with the development of the Boone and Crockett Club. Founded that night by Roosevelt, the club still exists today with the mission to promote two goals: The conservation of critical wildlife habitat ...

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for constructive development. It was the general public opinion that our natural resources were inexhaustible, and not even the government had real knowledge of our natural resources extent and condition. The American people had no idea there was a relation of the conservation of natural resources to the problems of national welfare and national efficiency. The reclamation of the arid lands in the West was still a matter for private enterprise alone.
In the government, forests and foresters had nothing to do with each other. All the forests owned by the United States were held and administered in one Department, while all the government employed foresters were held in another. In ...

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