Florida--Dry Tortugas

Two paragraph excerpt from Paul Russell Cutright’s Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist that describes President Theodore Roosevelt’s decision to establish the Pelican Island bird refuge in Florida along with a number of other bird reservations from 1903 to 1909. The Cutright excerpt is followed by two paragraphs that describe Roosevelt’s creation of national parks and monuments and closes with a quotation on conservation from his A Book-Lover’s Holiday in the Open.

A picture of Roosevelt examining a bird egg along with two unidentified men at a federal bird reservation in 1915 accompanies the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Assistant Secretary Roosevelt encloses a letter from Captain Higginson concerning the “extreme defectiveness of the surveys of the Dry Tortugas.”

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1898-02-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt encloses three memoranda for Secretary of the Navy Long. The first concerns the suitability of the Dry Tortugas as a naval base, the second is about the subject of torpedoes, and the third reports that the Italian government has agreed to sell two armored cruisers to Spain. Roosevelt calls Long’s attention to the growth of Spain’s naval force, in contrast to the United States’ relative stagnation.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1898-01-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919