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Theodore Roosevelt congratulates Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young, Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, on the conviction of two poachers. He urges Young to come east so they can discuss various matters around the park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-19
President Roosevelt asks Acting Secretary of the Navy Newberry if gunboats can be sent to the seal islands near Alaska to prevent poaching there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-01
President Roosevelt instructs Acting Secretary of the Navy Newberry to send the USS Buffalo to watch for seal poachers in the Bering Sea. The Buffalo should also investigate regarding coaling stations when not performing her duties around the seal islands.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-01
President Roosevelt approves of Attorney General Bonaparte’s handling of Japanese seal poachers in the Bering Sea. Roosevelt sends a letter from a reporter to Secretary of War William H. Taft about Senator William Edgar Borah.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-19
Yellowstone National Park Superintendent S. B. M. Young sends President Roosevelt photographs of two individuals convicted for poaching. Young acknowledges the hard work of Chief United States Game Protector T. S. Palmer in prosecuting the criminals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-14
Photograph of a dead golden eagle in a hunting trap near the Peaceful Valley picnic area in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1974
Photograph of a mule deer illegally shot and left within the boundary of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1965-11
Photograph of a bison’s body implicated in a shooting by Gus Meschke at his ranch north of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1960-06
Photograph of a bison’s body implicated in a shooting by Gus Meschke at his ranch north of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1960-06
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that J. B. Hamilton’s book is coming out soon and would happily receive a copy from him. The success of his book in South Africa excites him, and he hopes it will be helpful to Hamilton. Roosevelt is sorry to hear of the difficulties in restoring rhinoceros and elephants, especially with the concerns about game exterminators.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-09
President Roosevelt thanks Henry A. Melvin for the letter, and asks if Mr. Scanlon can give more information about the statement he made regarding elk in Yellowstone National Park. Roosevelt has himself traveled through the park in the spring and did not see any sign of a slaughter of elk, but would like to know about it if there were such signs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-18
President Roosevelt is glad to hear that the deer of Rhode Island have done so well, and promises to look into allegations of soldiers poaching them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-31
President Roosevelt would like information on game protection in Yellowstone National Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-24
John R. Browne is concerned about the elk population in Yellowstone National Park. He recently visited the Jackson Hole area in Wyoming where the majority of the Yellowstone elk winter. Sheep have eaten most of the forage and the elk are often hunted out of season. Browne has been working to protect the elk with a plan to expand the park and have an annual appropriation for hay to feed the elk. He believes that only the federal government can effectively conserve the elk population.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12
Superintendent Young updates William Loeb on recent unlawful activity in Yellowstone National Park. He and Major Henry T. Allen, commander of the troops at Fort Yellowstone, “encouraged” the conviction of a corporal from Tower Falls station for poaching as well as another soldier who vandalized a tree. Young believes he should stay in the park until mid January to prevent poaching and asks what President Roosevelt’s feelings are about a mounted police force to protect the park. Young will attend the wedding of Ellen Dean Child, daughter of a family with concessions in the park, and William Morse Nichols of California.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-05
Attorney General Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on legal matters in several states. In North Carolina, Bonaparte has found that many of the jurisdictional problems in the Southern Railway case are due to political posturing, and that Bonaparte’s investigator, Edward Terry Sanford, has found that the federal judge in the case, Jeter Connelly Pritchard, has acted appropriately. Bonaparte encloses a letter regarding Japanese seal poachers and suggests sending naval reinforcements. Bonaparte has directed Assistant Attorney General Alford Warriner Cooley to look into monopolistic actions of railroad and steamship companies in New England that are in possible violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-29
This film captures a 1915 visit by Theodore Roosevelt to Breton Island, a place he designated as a federal bird reserve in order to combat the rampant killing of birds for their plumage. (The film incorrectly identifies the location as Pelican Island.)
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1915
Lieutenant General Young tells President Roosevelt about poacher Charles Purdy of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, who has been arrested for illegally hunting game on federal lands. He includes a photo of Purdy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09
D. C. Nowlin has replaced Albert Nelson as State Game Warden of Wyoming. DeForest Richards views the appointment as a positive development that will stop the illegal killing of game in the state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-05