National Parks and Monuments Established by Theodore Roosevelt And His Popular quotes
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National Parks:
-Crater Lake in Oregon on May 22,1902
-Wind Cave in South Dakota on January 9,1903
-Sully's Hill in North Dakota on June 2,1904
(now managed by US Fish & Wildlife Service)
-Platt National Park in Oklahoma on June 29, 1906 (now part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area)
-Mesa Verde in Colorado on June 29, 1906
National Monuments:
Roosevelt signed the "Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities," also know as the Antiquities Act or the National Monuments Act, on June 8, 1906. The law authorized the President to "declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic and scientific interest that are situated upon lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be National Monuments."
Devil's Tower - 1906
El Morro - 1906
Montezuma Castle - 1906
Petrified Forest - 1906 (now a National Park)
Chaco Canyon - 1907
Lassen Peak - 1907 (now a National Park)
Cinder Cone - 1907 (now part of Lassen Volcanic National Park)
Gila Cliff Dwellings - 1907
Tonto - 1907
Muir Woods - 1908
Grand Canyon - 1908 (now a National Park) Theodore fought unsuccessfully to make it a National Park.
Pinnacles - 1908
Jewel Cave - 1908
Natural Bridges - 1908
Lewis & Clark (MT) - 1908 (later given to the state of Montana)
Tumacacori - 1908
Wheeler (Colorado) - 1908 (given to the Forest Service in 1950)
Mount Olympus - 1909 (now Olympic National Park)
-Roosevelt had established Chalmette Monument and Grounds in 1907, this site was much of the Battle of New Orleans, and now a part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park.
Roosevelt's Popular Quotes:
"It is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird. Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals -- not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening."
Theodore Roosevelt
TR after camping in Yosemite National Park:
"It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man."
"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."
http://www.nps.gov/thro/historyculture/theodore-roosevelt-and-conservation.htm
(this link goes to the information on this page and all the quotes)
-Crater Lake in Oregon on May 22,1902
-Wind Cave in South Dakota on January 9,1903
-Sully's Hill in North Dakota on June 2,1904
(now managed by US Fish & Wildlife Service)
-Platt National Park in Oklahoma on June 29, 1906 (now part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area)
-Mesa Verde in Colorado on June 29, 1906
National Monuments:
Roosevelt signed the "Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities," also know as the Antiquities Act or the National Monuments Act, on June 8, 1906. The law authorized the President to "declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic and scientific interest that are situated upon lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be National Monuments."
Devil's Tower - 1906
El Morro - 1906
Montezuma Castle - 1906
Petrified Forest - 1906 (now a National Park)
Chaco Canyon - 1907
Lassen Peak - 1907 (now a National Park)
Cinder Cone - 1907 (now part of Lassen Volcanic National Park)
Gila Cliff Dwellings - 1907
Tonto - 1907
Muir Woods - 1908
Grand Canyon - 1908 (now a National Park) Theodore fought unsuccessfully to make it a National Park.
Pinnacles - 1908
Jewel Cave - 1908
Natural Bridges - 1908
Lewis & Clark (MT) - 1908 (later given to the state of Montana)
Tumacacori - 1908
Wheeler (Colorado) - 1908 (given to the Forest Service in 1950)
Mount Olympus - 1909 (now Olympic National Park)
-Roosevelt had established Chalmette Monument and Grounds in 1907, this site was much of the Battle of New Orleans, and now a part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park.
Roosevelt's Popular Quotes:
"It is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird. Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals -- not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening."
Theodore Roosevelt
TR after camping in Yosemite National Park:
"It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man."
"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."
http://www.nps.gov/thro/historyculture/theodore-roosevelt-and-conservation.htm
(this link goes to the information on this page and all the quotes)