Theodore Roosevelt: Statements Pertaining to Conservation

Theodore Roosevelt’s Statements Pertaining to Conservation bring into sharp focus the president’s well-considered purposes and extraordinary accomplishments in the preservation of the nation’s natural resources. He created the U.S. Forest Service and, under the 1906 American Antiquities Act, he proclaimed eighteen national monuments. By most estimates, the area of the United States placed under public protection by Roosevelt during his presidency—as national parks and forests, wildlife preserves, and other federal reservations—comes to some 230,000,000 acres, an achievement that gained him the title “Conservation President.”