Theodore Roosevelt Land Conservation. Land Conservation The cornerstone to his Domestic Policy.

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Theodore Roosevelt Land Conservation

Land Conservation The cornerstone to his Domestic Policy.

Reasons for Conservation Government paid little attention to the nation’s natural resources in 1800’s. Private interests bought up the shrinking wilderness. Urban growth. Population increase. Immigration.

Industrialization Industrial waste dumped on land and in rivers. Mining stripped the land. Lumber companies over-logging affected flood control.

Impact of Farming and Cattle Ranchers Pioneer farmers clearing forests and plowing the prairies. Overgrazing of cattle in the Great Plains.

Roosevelt Takes Action He alerted Americans that our resource supply was not endless. Roosevelt influenced by naturalists John Muir and Gifford Pinchot.

His Accomplishments 150 National Forests. 51 Federal Bird Reservations. 4 National Game Reserves. 5 National Parks. 18 National Monuments. 24 Reclamation Projects. 7 Conservation Conferences and Commissions.

National Parks Crater Lake, Oregon

Wind Cave, South Dakota

Sully’s Hill, North Dakota

Platt, Oklahoma

Mesa Verde, Colorado.

He fought unsuccessfully to make the Grand Canyon a N.P. He did protect it by declaring it a National Monument. It will become a N.P. in 1919 after Roosevelt was president.

Antiquities Act 1906 The first law to establish that archeological sites on public lands are important public resources. Obligates federal agencies that manage the public lands to preserve for present and future generations the historic, scientific, commemorative, and cultural values of the archaeological and historic site and structures on these lands.

continued Authorizes the President to protect landmarks, structures, and objects of historic or scientific interest by designating them as National Monuments.