Sand and gravel mines and mining--Environmental aspects

Tweed Roosevelt describes a visit to the White House in which he and members of his family met President Barack Obama. Roosevelt notes that he took the opportunity to ask Obama to consider declaring the Elkhorn Ranch site in North Dakota a national monument to protect it from the encroachments of the oil industry in the Badlands. Roosevelt quotes a long passage from Theodore Roosevelt’s writing about the ranch site, and he highlights the two most immediate threats to the area, proposals for a bridge across the Little Missouri River and a gravel mine. Roosevelt says that the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) must act to save the site that was so important to Theodore Roosevelt and the American conservation movement.

 

Four photographs and an illustration, including one each of the Elkhorn Ranch site, supplement the text.