National Parks Established by Theodore Roosevelt
List of five National Parks created by Theodore Roosevelt, including the years in which they were created.
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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Creation Date
1988
Your TR Source
Oregon--Crater Lake National Park
The National Wildlife Refuge System, 1903-1978
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.
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Letter from Thomas H. Tongue to W. G. Steel
Representative Tongue received a package from the White House and mailed it on to W. G. Steel without opening it. Tongue believes the package contained the pen with which President Roosevelt signed the Crater Lake Bill. Within the package, Steel should find a note stating the date of the signing.
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Creation Date
1902-05-27
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Letter from Gifford Pinchot to W. G. Steel
Gifford Pinchot appreciates the invitation to visit Crater Lake, but is sorry to decline the invitation because his schedule will not allow a visit.
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Creation Date
1910-07-13
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Letter from W. G. Steel to Theodore Roosevelt
Corresponding Secretary W. G. Steel has not received acknowledgment of his letter from April 9th and sends it again. The offer of honorary membership to the Mazamas has not been met cordially, and lack of acknowledgment to this letter will lead to the assumption that President Roosevelt desires to “to snub” the club.
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Creation Date
1906-05-14
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Letter from W. G. Steel to Theodore Roosevelt
Corresponding Secretary W. G. Steel extends to President Theodore Roosevelt an offer of honorary membership in the Mazamas, a mountain climbing club. The induction would recognize Roosevelt’s lifelong interest in natural conservation and his role in creating Crater Lake National Park. Steel describes the club’s history and the parameters of honorary membership and requests permission to submit Roosevelt’s name for election at the next annual meeting.
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Creation Date
1905-08-17
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Letter from W. G. Steel to Theodore Roosevelt
W. G. Steel seriously objects to having Crater Lake National Park used for the political benefit of one man, as he thinks the Cascade Range Forest Reserve has been used by Binger Herman, Commissioner of the General Land Office. Steel suggests that management of Crater Lake be turned over to the Geological Survey, where he thinks it will be honestly administered.
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Creation Date
1902-06-23
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Letter from Thomas H. Tongue to W. G. Steel
Representative Tongue is glad that W. G. Steel received the pen used to sign the act establishing a national park at Crater Lake.
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Creation Date
1902-06-04
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Crater Lake Park Act approved
W. G. Steel, the prime mover in petitioning Congress to establish a National Park at Crater Lake, Oregon, was notified by Congressman Thomas H. Tongue that President Roosevelt had approved the act of Congress creating the park. Tongue also sent Steel the pen that was used in signing the act.
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Creation Date
1902-06-02
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Letter from George B. Cortelyou to Thomas H. Tongue
George B. Cortelyou notifies Representative Tongue that President Roosevelt has approved H. R. 4393, which establishes a national park at Crater Lake, Oregon. Cortelyou also sends the pen used to sign the bill.
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Creation Date
1902-05-24
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Letter from Thomas H. Tongue to W. G. Steel
Representative Tongue has received W. G. Steel’s letter from the 12th and will consult with the Geological Survey. Tongue hopes to be able to obtain the pen used to sign the Crater Lake bill for Steel.
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Creation Date
1902-05-17
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Letter from Thomas H. Tongue to W. G. Steel
Representative Tongue responds to W. G. Steel’s invitation to Crater Lake. Frederick Newell of the Geological Survey will be attending, and he will inquire if Gifford Pinchot is also attending. Tongue writes that he will attend himself if he is able.
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Creation Date
1902-05-15
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Letter from W. G. Steel to Theodore Roosevelt
W. G. Steel writes to President Roosevelt thanking him for his assistance in getting Crater Lake National Park established. Steel had been working locally for seventeen years working for the area’s preservation. Steel invites the president on a two-week outing to Crater Lake.
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Creation Date
1902-05-10
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Maybe Roosevelt didn’t pay a visit to Crater Lake
The Theodore Roosevelt Association claims that a well known photograph of Theodore Roosevelt at Crater Lake is not actually Roosevelt. The photograph came under scrutiny as the National Park Service prepared to celebrate the centennial of Crater Lake National Park. Local lore claims that Roosevelt visited Crater Lake and the Baldwin Hotel in Klamath Falls, Oregon, but written evidence is lacking.
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Creation Date
1999-12-14
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E-mail from Stephen R. Mark to Carolyn Hescock, et al.
Stephen R. Mark forwards an e-mail exchange regarding where Theodore Roosevelt signed the legislation that created Crater Lake National Park, which some people believe happened at the Baldwin Hotel in Klamath Falls, Oregon. According to Nancy Hori, Roosevelt was on the East Coast when the legislation was signed so the event could not have occurred at the hotel.
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Creation Date
1999-11-18
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Crater Lake bill passed
Representative Thomas H. Tongue has secured the necessary legislation for the creation of Crater Lake National Park.
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Creation Date
1902-04-25
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Not your average visitor
Local lore has claimed that Theodore Roosevelt signed the legislation creating Crater Lake National Park at the Baldwin Hotel in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and that Roosevelt visited Crater Lake. There is no evidence for these claims and the only Roosevelt to visit Crater Lake was Eleanor Roosevelt in 1934. Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter visited the lake in 1991 and had a trip similar to the average visitor.
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Creation Date
2000