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William Wood expresses to Theodore Roosevelt his concern for wildlife in Labrador and asks for his support in promoting bird and mammal sanctuaries.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-10
Photograph of an informational display entitled “Wings Over the Badlands,” which illustrates birds in the badlands region; museum exhibit #14 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Theodore Roosevelt gives permission for Thomas Gilbert Pearson to use his name in connection with the Audubon Society.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-25
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Alice Roseley for her letter. Roosevelt writes that he is greatly interested in the conservation of birds.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-28
William T. Hornaday writes to inform Theodore Roosevelt of his opposition to the proposed lease of Stinking Lake, New Mexico, to a sportsman’s club looking to “turn the finest wild-fowl bredding ground in New Mexico into a duck “preserve.”” Hornaday believes that Stinking lake should be designated as a national bird preserve.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-12-10
William T. Hornaday will support E. H. Grubb’s scheme for Stinking Lake if Grubb can secure the approval of the New Mexico Game Protective Association. In a handwritten postscript, Hornaday celebrates the New York Board of Education’s dismissal of three “disloyal teachers.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-12-20
William T. Hornaday thanks Theodore Roosevelt for endorsing his latest book and commends Roosevelt for his own writing about wildlife conservation. Hornaday was extremely disappointed that the book about Alaskan birds published by the Audubon Society did not give adequate coverage to conservation issues.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-01
Frederic T. Lewis tells Theodore Roosevelt that the Massachusetts legislature is attempting to allow the shooting of certain ducks and geese from January until April 15. In 1909, a bill was passed prohibiting the shooting of all ducks and geese from January 1 through September 15. Lewis would like a statement from Roosevelt against the modified bill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-10
Tweed Roosevelt asks why there has been so little consideration of Theodore Roosevelt’s record as a conservationist. He reviews some of the major biographies and histories of Roosevelt and his time and finds that their examination of Roosevelt as a conservationist is scanty at best. Tweed Roosevelt identifies Roosevelt’s father, Theodore Roosevelt, and his uncle, Robert Barnwall Roosevelt, as important figures in shaping Roosevelt’s interest in the natural world, and he surveys the actions taken by Roosevelt as Governor of New York and President of the United States to safeguard rivers, forests, birds, and natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon.
Two photographs of Theodore Roosevelt and one of Robert Barnwall Roosevelt supplement the text.
Views of TR walking on the beach. Holding his hat, TR stands near bushes on an island and follows the flight of birds. Film photographed by Herbert K. Job of the National Audubon Society, on an expedition with TR to bird sanctuary islands off the Louisiana coast in June 1915.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1915
President Roosevelt’s second executive order No. 1014, dated January 26, 1909, enlarging Pelican Island Reservation, Florida, which had been established by him on March 13, 1903. This order expands lands to include all mangrove and other islands within sections nine and ten, t. 315. f. 39e.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-01-26