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.
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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
- 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)
- Books by 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