Meanie. My great-grandfather rode with him in the Rough Rider days. He was said to be a one-of-a-kind human being, and we have National Parks from coast to coast on account of President Roosevelt.
As president, Roosevelt created five national parks (doubling the previously existing number); signed the landmark Antiquities Act and used its special provisions to unilaterally create 18 national monuments, including the Grand Canyon; set aside 51 federal bird sanctuaries, four national game refuges, and more than 100 million acres' worth of national forests.
There are more National Park Service units dedicated to Roosevelt's life and memory than any other American, including
Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the Badlands of North Dakota, where he shot his first buffalo and set up a ranch.
The national parks and monuments are noting more than naked federal land grabs, something the modern liberoidal excels at....He's also the original meddling interventionist warmonger.
This is true.
You know, private citizens could own much of that "management land" but the government does in the name of "preserving".
But yet they sell all the pines off to paper companies for money, there are no really old-growth trees on management land. They harvest the pines only. To make it worse, they just destroy the old Oaks to get to the pines.
Conservation my ass. Taxpayer-funded government profiteering is more like what it actually is.
Not sure how much Teddy had to do with the way it is. The way it is is fucked up.
It about broke my heart when multiple fires rampaged through the drought-weakened Yellowstone, as a then-resident of the Equality State where most of the Park resides in its northwest corner. Wildlife losses were exponential when scattered fires came together in one big whoosh that cornered an exponential number of deer,black bears, caribou, elk, moose, and a few bison. We even worried about the chipmunk population. There were so many angry things said in every coffeeshop and restaurant in Casper, and everybody seemed to have a theory on why it got so out of control after burning a 1 or 2 acre controlled area for several weeks. Everyone had his own theory of what made it so awful. We drove through it a year later, after it was put out, and I felt sick just looking at the still-standing black stumps where magnificent trees once stood. The only good thing I saw were the flowers on the forest floors. All the Park Rangers said very comforting things in the lectures we attended, how we would have tall trees back in less than 40 years, and the low growth would set the soil right for the new trees to regenerate. I'm not sure that Teddy Roosevelt's works included forest management among the 35 books he authored, but they say he had an iq well over 140 and was a Harvard graduate.
Night, everyone. Thanks for a very stimulating discussion. I'll be praying for the areas in California that burned down people's homes and businesses, especially those people who lost their lives and the loved ones left behind from such a cataclysmic event, and the restoration of natural habitat and people's lives, which will never be the same due to the terrors they and their children experienced in escaping, many who didn't make it. And for the stationary as well as migratory birds who depended on those forests for shelter and food.and for the little owls that almost went extinct in that area 20 or so years ago. Hope all of them come back to bless us with song and their natural beauty. It will take patience and a lot of years to recover. Bless the beasts and the children.
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 collectively formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control due to drought conditions and increasing winds, combining into one large conflagration which burned for several months.