Progressives and Conservation

Progressives and the Wilderness

• Need to save the wilderness and environment

• Business interests would use up to make $

• Congress created :

• National Park Service

• National forest Service

National Park Service"...to promote and regulate the use of the...national parks

which purpose is to conserve

the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein

and to provide

for the enjoyment of the same in such manner

and by such means as will leave them

unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."

National Park Service

National Forest Service

Established in 1905, the Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and

grasslands.Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the Forest Service, summed up the mission of the Forest Service— "to provide the greatest amount of good for the greatest

amount of people in the long run."National forests and grasslands encompass 193 million acres of land, which is

an area equivalent to the size of Texas.

National Forest Service

NPS-NFS

• Trees Timber

• Animals Game

• Rocks Ore

• Who uses which name?

• NPS or NFS

Clear Cut Forest

Redwoods- California

Mining Site

Mining Dump

Montana Mine

Colorado Rockies

Grand Tetons Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist

• "There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.“

• Theodore Roosevelt, August 6, 1912, Confession of Faith Speech, Progressive National Convention

Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist

• 26th President• 230,000,000 acres preserved while President• He established 150 National Forests including

the Ocala and Choctawhatchee National Forests in Florida, 51 Federal Bird Reservations including Pelican Island plus nine others, 18 National Monuments, perhaps the most notable of which is the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and 5 National Parks.

Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist

Write a poem

• Write a telephone poem about Progressives and Conservation

• Pattern-Telephone number

• 540-886 7210

• Line 1 -5 words. Line 2-4 words,

• Line 3-10 words and continue in that pattern