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President Roosevelt introduces John Muir and Charles Sprague Sargent, especially to all diplomatic, consular, naval, and military representatives of the United States abroad.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-19
President Roosevelt introduces John Muir and Charles S. Sargent, who will be making a scientific trip to China. Roosevelt asks Minister Conger to help them with their travels.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-19
President Roosevelt introduces John Muir and Charles Sprague Sargent, who will be visiting Siberia and are interested in “certain tree and rock studies.” Roosevelt asks Ambassador McCormick to help Muir and Sargent in any way.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-19
John Muir writes that the first part of the trip in the Sierra with Theodore Roosevelt was the best. The letter Roosevelt gave Muir made things easy in Siberia and Manchuria. Muir traveled along through India, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. What Muir saw in the Philippines made him proud of his country. Muir believes Roosevelt will be elected.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-27
Char Miller charts the long path that led to the passage in 1911 of the Weeks Act which provided for the purchase of forest lands in the eastern and southern United States by the federal government to protect the adjacent navigable rivers. Miller highlights the efforts of John W. Weeks of Massachusetts who pushed for the legislation as a member of Congress. Miller lists some of the provisions of the legislation, and he notes how the preservation of forest lands was extended to the Appalachian Mountain watershed in the South. Miller argues that combining the preservation of forest lands in the Northeast and South gave the legislation more support in Congress, and he describes how Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt tried to overcome southern hostility to measures by the federal government to purchase forest land.
Photographs of Pinchot and Weeks, two advertisements from the U.S. Forest Service celebrating the centennial of the Weeks Act, and the text of a speech by Roosevelt supplement the article.
Barry W. Walsh provides an overview of the career of America’s first and most famous forester, Gifford Pinchot. Walsh emphasizes Pinchot’s work in government to promote forest conservation, and she examines his work with President Theodore Roosevelt and his dismissal under President William Howard Taft. Walsh also examines Pinchot’s bitter quarrel with John Muir over building a dam in the Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park, and she notes his advising President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the founding of the Yale Forest School. A photograph of Pinchot appears in the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1987
Stephen R. Fox explores the divide in the American conservation movement between camps headed by followers of John Muir and those of Gifford Pinchot. He talks about the popularity of each and of the scholarship that has been produced about each of them. Fox argues that Pinchot “is best understood not as a conservationist but as a politician,” and he examines Pinchot’s autobiography in some detail to support this assertion. Fox argues that Pinchot had presidential aspirations and that he demonstrated little interest in practical forestry matters in his later years, but he also contends that Pinchot remains an important figure in the history of the American conservation movement.
A photograph of Roosevelt and Pinchot appears in the article as does a listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. A notice that this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal is dedicated to Jessica Kraft appears on the last page of the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1987
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.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1981
President Roosevelt introduces John Muir and Charles Sprague Sargent. Their work has “done credit to America” and they are visiting Siberia to study the natural features of the land. Roosevelt requests that Ambassador McCormick do all he can to help Muir and Sargent.
1903-05-19