Thank you Theodore Roosevelt

[DonVathome]

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/conservation.htm

I have a similiar post up on bowsite, thanks leftee for the above link.

"One of President Theodore Roosevelt's most lasting and significant contributions to the world was the permanent preservation of the some of the most unique natural resources of the United States. According to the National Geographic, the area of the United States placed under public protection by Theodore Roosevelt, as National Parks, National Forests, game and bird preserves, and other federal reservations, comes to a total of approximately 230,000,000 acres or about 84,000 acres per day!"

That is what I read in the latest RMEF magazine. During his presidency he preserved an area of land equivalent to all our eastern seaborg states.

Upon checking leftee's link just about all my elk hunts (and deer, sheep etc), and many future tags I will draw, take place on land TR preserved.

Thanks Theodore Roosevelt.

I think few realize just how much he did, and after reading the article I did I have a much better idea. We all owe him a heck of a thank you.

He also founded Boone and Crocket (which was originaly NOT for recording big game trophies). It was to promote fair chase and preseve game. If TR was never president I think our elk hunting would be a lot worse now. Far fewer oppurtunities.

"The forest reserves of the United States went from approximately 43,000,000 acres to about 194,000,000 acres under TR. This represents an increase of over 400%. The area of forest reserves established by TR is equal in acreage to all the states on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Virginia plus the states of Vermont, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. This is a greater area than France, Belgium, and The Netherlands combined."

That is huge. TR preseved 151,000,000 acres

Also I checked again, so far all of my elk hunts have been on NF TR saved. According to the data I found current NF is 193 million acres, thus TR preseved over 78% of the NF land we have today.

Over 3/4 of our national Forest was preserved by Teddy Roosevelt this is huge!

Thank You TR!

 

[88man]

I was told a story about when he was hunting with the Prince of Monacco and Buffalo Bill Cody. It was about the boundary of that big NP west of Red Creek and Bear Creek and Jones Creek. Any one ever heard anything about their hunt or read anything about it?

 

[DonVathome]

I cannot believe more guys did not care about this.

Here is what National Forests he gave Utah:
Manti
Fillmore
Nebo
Ashley
Uinta
Fishlake
La Salle
Wasatch
Powell

I guess most of you do not hunt these areas?

And Natural Bridges National Park

We all owe him, and a couple other key people a great debt!

 

[TFinalshot]

LAST EDITED ON Jan-10-08 AT 07:18AM (MST)[p]Yea great legacy.

Interesting how TR is a hero for pulling some land out but Bill Clinton for his efforts to preserve the "last best place" where once Lewis and Clark stood, and today it remains much the same, is called a communist, a socialist an a-hole, and liberal wacko and about every other mean spirited word you can think of.

This place I'm refering too preserves the locals rights to farm and live their "traditional" life, this includes cattle ranching and farming, it also requires that the BLM protect it's resources, but more importantly to hunters, it produces trophy bulls, and bar none, the biggest and most numbers of any state of BC rams every year, what is this place?

The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument and the BLM treats it like a turd as do most conservative republicans. In fact, many on the right think that preserving this place and a couple others like it, was one of the worst things Clinton ever did.

Me, I think it was one of the best. No other place on earth is like it, and still you can go there and sit and be in a wild place and see just what lewis and clark saw on their journey to discover america. . .

Take a look:

http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/fo/lewistown_field_office/UM.html

 

[jodog]

Bill Clinton is all of the above but I agree, leave the UMRB NM alone. Without TR I don't think we would have any game to hunt and very little if any Govt. land to hunt on. God Bless Teddy.

 

[huntindude]

TR was the greatest American who ever lived, my only true hero . If we had a presidential candidate today with 10% of his worth I'd be out working on his campaign tonight.

 

[WyoXtec]

I'm sure that TR was also called a lunatic and many other names for doing what he did. Anyone who enjoys the outdoors should take their hat off to that man.

There is a great write up on him in the latest issue of Fair Chase.

 

[wileywapati]

I would challenge all of you to find the book "A rifle In Hand"
read that sumbitch then come back on this very site and let me know exactly what ya think!!

 

[fatrooster]

In a couple of years I plan on getting me a male Lab and I think I'll name it Theodore. I've always been a fan of Theodore Roosevelt and love to read stories of the man. He is a true hero and I'm sure that many people hated him for closing off all of that land.
When Clinton wanted to close off land in the West I was pretty much against it but after seeing how the West is getting abused by ATV's, SUV's, 4-wheel drives and people in general I kinda have changed some of my outlook on the situation.
All Presidents have done some bad and some good. That being said, I would never name my dog or any dog after Bill Clinton.
fatrooster.

 

[BigFin]

Words of Wisdom:

?Above all, we should realize that the effort toward this end is essentially a democratic movement. It is ? in our power ? to preserve large tracts of wilderness ? and to preserve game ? for ? all lovers of nature, and to give reasonable opportunities for the exercise of the skill of the hunter, whether he is or is not a man of means.?

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President
United States of America


"Hunt when you can - You're gonna' run out of health before you run out of money!"

 

[califhuntn]

Those words are put together so well. I have always told anyone who will listen that Theodore Roosevelt was our greatests President. Those of you that don't know much about him should just take a few moments to do a little reasearch. You will be amazed at the life he lead and all he accomplished.

He hunted with some very important and famous people. He even hunted bighaorn sheep with the original tree-hunger Ansel Adams here in California back when we had California Bighorns.

Honestly can anyone name one other individual that has done so much for wildlife, conservation and the sport of hunting? We are truly blessed to have had a president like TR. Oh ya, that evil vian President Clinton was not so bad either.

JR

 

[toughshed]

TFinal...I looked at the pictures and I didn't see anything that looked "turd-like" at all. What are you ragging about? So a liberal saved a great place on earth. Good. Sounds Bill is your hero and you just couldn't pass up the opportunity to toot your horn for him. Must of the rest of us think he is exactly what you described plus a wife-cheater as well...but I thank him for preserving the breaks.

 

[DonVathome]

Good info, I have taken to saying "thanks TR" every time I look at my elk, my pictures or apply for what I know will be a great hunt if I draw. I oftne whine about draw odds but without TR they would be a whole lot worse. Probably half the elk and half the places to hunt them, or worse.

 

[slider]

WOW!!! And I just thought he was the first President to bump into a Sasquatch!!!!