![]() ![]() But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation.Ĭonservation increasingly became one of Roosevelt's main concerns. We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. While many still considered natural resources inexhaustible, Roosevelt would write: He saw the effects of overgrazing, and suffered the loss of his ranches because of it. The decimation of bison, and the eradication of elk, bighorn sheep, deer and other game species was a loss which Roosevelt felt indicative of society's perception of our natural resources. ![]() Although his writings depict numerous hunting trips and successful kills, they are laced with lament for the loss of species and habitat. A sportsman-hunter all his life, Roosevelt sought a chance to hunt the big game of North America before they disappeared. Theodore Roosevelt first came to the Badlands in September 1883. Theodore Roosevelt is often considered the "conservationist president." Here in the North Dakota Badlands, where many of his personal concerns first gave rise to his later environmental efforts, Roosevelt is remembered with a national park that bears his name and honors the memory of this great conservationist. Roosevelt had this image taken for the cover of his book, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman." ![]()
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