Environmental Conservation: Natural
Conservation
Sagamore Hill
National Historic Site
Sagamore
Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United
States, from 1886 until his death on January 6, 1919. Used as the
"Summer White House" from 1902 to 1908, it was the focus of national
attention during his presidency. At other times, it was simply the
home of a rather amazing fellow.
According
to Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, Edmund Morris and other accounts,
Roosevelt was a family-centered father of six children who ended
his workday at 4 PM so he could go play with the kids, America's
first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, diplomat, internationalist,
naval historian, naval strategist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
historian, biographer, essayist, editor, columnist, critic, paleontologist,
taxidermist, ornithologist, field naturalist, conservationist, big
game hunter, world-class expert on big-game animals, country squire,
horseman, socialite, patron of the arts, colonel of the cavalry,
combat commander, civil service reformer, New York City police commissioner,
third place finisher in a race for New York City mayor, North Dakota
deputy sheriff, Governor of New York and Vice-President of the United
States. Today, his Sagamore Hill home is furnished as it was during
his busy lifetime.
- Acadia National Park
- Denali National Park and Preserve
- Everglades National Park
- Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- John
Muir National Historic Site
- Marsh-Billings
National Historical Park
- Sagamore
Hill National Historic Site
- Shenandoah
National Park
- Yellowstone
National Park
- Yosemite
National Park
Related Links:
- Conservation, Preservation, and Environmental Activism:
A Survey of the Historical Literature
- The Meaning of Nature: Wilderness, Wildlife, and Ecological Values in the National Parks (pdf)
- Selected
Events in the Development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920
- Environmental History: The View at the Grand Canyon
- Preserving the Beasts of Waste and Desolation: Theodore Roosevelt and Predator Control in Yellowstone National Park (pdf)
- The
Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report by Frederick Law Olmsted
(1865)
- The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature
- The
Yellowstone National Park by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1895)
- The
Writings of John Muir
- The
Mountains of California by John Muir (1894)
- Our
National Parks by John Muir (1901)
- Report
of the Public Lands Commission (1905)
- Proceedings of a Conference of Governors
(1908)
- Addresses
and proceedings of the first National Conservation Congress held at Seattle, Washington,
August 26-28, 1909.
- The
Fight For Conservation by Gifford Pinchot (1910)
- My
First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (1911)
- The
Yosemite by John Muir (1912)
-
Our Vanishing Wildlife: Its Extermination and Preservation (1913)
- National
Park Service. Hearing before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives
(1916)
- Proceedings
of the National Park Conference, vol. 4 (1917)
- The
Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
- Teaching With Historic Places: Conservation Lesson Plans
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