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Photograph of a plaque on the visitors’ center wall located in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, featuring an engraving of Stephen Tyng Mather, first National Park Service Director.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1959-11-05
Newsletter, published by the Greater North Dakota Association, that contains an article about the creation of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Article highlights the features of the proposed park and its boundaries.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1928-08-01
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur speaks at the dedication of Lassen Volcanic National Park, recounting the history of the effort to designate the area as a national park, and the improvements which were necessary to do so. Wilbur acknowledges the help the Department of the Interior and National Park Service have received from the people of northern California, as well as the efforts of a number of legislators and government employees. He reflects on the National Park Service as a whole, and emphasizes that the park belongs not only to California, but to the entire United States. (In his speech Wilbur mistakenly identifies William H. Taft, rather than Theodore Roosevelt, as the president who initially created Lassen and Cinder Cone National Monuments in 1906)
1931-07-25
Acting Secretary of Agriculture Vrooman informs Secretary of the Interior Lane that the only permanent improvement currently present in the Lassen Volcanic National Park is twenty miles of telephone lines. He includes a diagram showing the area of the National Park, as well as the approximate location of the telephone line. Vrooman confirms that members of the Forest Service have been directed to continue to protect the park from fire or damage until the Department of the Interior can take over administration, and asks if there is an estimate of when this transfer might take place.
1916-09-08
Representative Raker sends Assistant Director of the National Park Service Cammerer a letter to forward to Director of the National Park Service Stephen Tyng Mather. Raker hopes that Mather will be able to meet with Arthur L. Conard when he is visits California later in the year.
1919-09-18
The Susanville Chamber of Commerce issues a resolution opposing the “abandonment and discontinuance of the Peter Lassen National Park as a National Park, and the return of the lands embraced therein to the Forest Service.” It also encourages the United States Congress to make the necessary appropriations to allow for improvement of the park.
1920-01-17
In this chapter excerpt from his book John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement, Stephen Fox examines efforts to expand Yosemite National Park, the battle between preservationists and conservationists over the use of forests, and provides portraits of John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, John Burroughs, and Theodore Roosevelt. He looks at the work undertaken by the conservation movement to preserve Niagara Falls, the redwood forests of California, and Mount Desert Island in Maine. Fox concludes the chapter with a look at the battle over the city of San Francisco’s desire to build a dam at the southern end of Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park. In addition to looking at the life and work of Muir, the chapter provides information on many lesser known figures in the turn of the twentieth-century conservation movement.
A listing of the officers and the members of the executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is found on the second page of the excerpt.
President Harding proclaims that the land donated by William and Elizabeth Thatcher Kent in Marin County, California, will be added to Muir Woods National Monument pursuant to the Antiquities Act of 1906. The proclamation describes the boundaries of the addition and states that the land is significant due to its extensive redwood trees.
1921-09-22
A proclamation by President Coolidge expanding the area of Pinnacles National Monument. Maps highlighting the expanded area are included.
1924-07-02
President Harding proclaims an addition to Pinnacles National Monument, and includes a diagram of the borders of that addition.
1923-05-07