For the second week in April, our second quote on conservation.

Tonight, President Theodore Roosevelt.

Of all Roosevelt’s achievements, he was proudest of his work in conservation, and extending federal protection to land and wildlife. Roosevelt worked closely with Interior Secretary James Garfield to enact a series of conservation programs.  Roosevelt established the United States Forest Service, signed into law the creation of five National Parks, he also established the first 51 bird reserves, four game preserves, and 150 National Forests

 The area of the United States that he placed under public protection totals approximately 230 million acres.

 

 “Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.”

 

Something to think about as we are reminded that as Scouts, we are stewards of the Earth.