Forest Reserve
● The _____________________ allowed the President of the United States to set
aside a portion of land away from the public domain
○ Roosevelt set aside 160 million acres aside as national forest.
○ Roosevelt stated that he supported using our land’s resources but not
wasting them.
○ The forest reserves were controlled by the Department of the Interior’s
General Land Office.
○ From the earliest days of the agency, the U.S. Forest Service has kept
forest management as a primary focus
○ As of 2005, the United States had 155 national forests, 20 national
grasslands, and 222 research and experimental forests, as well as other
areas of special interest, covering more than 192 million acres of public
land.
Dr.Harvey Washington
● was and M.D. and took part in the pure food and drug act.
● Dr. Harvey was also a chemist in the united states department of
agriculture.
● Assisted Congress in their earliest questions regarding the safety of the
chemical preservatives then being employed in foods
Upton Sinclair
● An American author who wrote the book “
”
○ This novel originally was made to portray the lives of
in
the United States
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People were more interested in his reports on the _____________
Sinclair founded the state's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU).
President _____________ had contempt for Sinclair and said that he was
untruthful
He did however agree with some of the conclusions but opposed Sinclair’s
proposal for legislation
Pure food and drug act
● The pure food and drug act was a key part of the ___progressive era
legislation____.
● was a law passed that removes harmful and misrepresented foods .
● regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in the interstate
trade .
Meat inspection act
● Is an act that is for preventing ___misbranded____ meat,
● The original act started in ______1906____.
● gave the secretary of agricul store permissions to inspect meat.
Muir
● America’s most famous and influential _________________
● He has been called “The Father of _________________”,
● His words and deeds helped inspire President Theodore Roosevelt's innovative
conservation programs, including establishing the first National Monuments by
Presidential Proclamation, and Yosemite National Park by congressional action.
● In 1892, John Muir and other supporters formed the Sierra Club "to make the
mountains glad."
● As a writer, he taught the people of his time and ours the importance of
experiencing and protecting our natural heritage.
● He is famous for his exciting adventures in California’s Sierra Nevada.
● Dozens of places are named after John Muir, including the Muir Woods National
Monument, the John Muir Trail, Muir College (UCSD), and many schools.
Pinchot
● American forester and politician
● Was a progressive
● He established the Society of American Foresters
○ helped bring credibility to the _________________, and was part of the
broader professionalization movement underway in the United States at
the turn of the twentieth century
● Pinchot introduced better forestry methods into the operations of private owners,
large and small, by using ____________________to demonstrate good practices
and help make working plans
● sought to turn public land policy from one that dispersed resources among
private holdings, to one that
______________________________________________.
● Believed in efficiency movement
● he battled the forest preservationists like John Muir, who were deeply opposed to
commercializing nature
Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks
● Theodore Roosevelt had grown up in
free time hunting.
, where as a boy he spent his
● Decades later Theodore Roosevelt became president following the assassination
of
.
● The 26th president of the United States was an advocate for preserving
.
● During his presidency Theodore helped conserve America’s nature, he had
created
,
national parks, doubling the
existing number.
● He had also signed
, which aid him in creating eighteen
national monuments, set aside fifty one federal bird sanctuaries, four national
game refuges, and more than hundred million acres' worth of national forests.
● One national monument many of us know today that Theodore protected is the
,
.
● For Theodore’s determination and work he did to preserve nature, a park was
dedicated to him; the
in the Badlands of North Dakota,
where he shot his first buffalo and set up a ranch.
Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/historical/roosevelt/
Forest Reserve
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1602.html