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1 Progressives and Conservation

2 Progressives and the Wilderness Need to save the wilderness and environment Business interests would use up to make $ Congress created : National Park Service National forest Service

3 National Park Service "...to promote and regulate the use of the...national parks which purpose is 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."

4 National Park Service

5 National Forest Service Established in 1905, the Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands. Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the Forest Service, summed up the mission of the Forest Service— "to provide the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people in the long run." National forests and grasslands encompass 193 million acres of land, which is an area equivalent to the size of Texas.

6 National Forest Service

7 NPS-NFS Trees Timber Animals Game Rocks Ore Who uses which name? NPS or NFS

8 Clear Cut Forest

9 Redwoods- California

10 Mining Site

11 Mining Dump

12 Montana Mine

13 Colorado Rockies

14 Grand Tetons Wyoming

15 Yellowstone National Park

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17 Niagara Falls

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19 Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist "There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.“ Theodore Roosevelt, August 6, 1912, Confession of Faith Speech, Progressive National Convention

20 Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist 26 th President 230,000,000 acres preserved while President He established 150 National Forests including the Ocala and Choctawhatchee National Forests in Florida, 51 Federal Bird Reservations including Pelican Island plus nine others, 18 National Monuments, perhaps the most notable of which is the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and 5 National Parks.

21 Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist

22 Write a poem Write a telephone poem about Progressives and Conservation Pattern-Telephone number 540-886 7210 Line 1 -5 words. Line 2-4 words, Line 3-10 words and continue in that pattern


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