Teddy Roosevelt wouldn't like what's going on in Oregon

By Andy Stepniewski
For the Yakima Herald-Republic

... outdoor-minded folks began to realize the wilderness in the American West was not inexhaustible; if there was to be any wild nature left, its exploitation had to be reduced. Timbermen, miners, hunters were not only threatening individual species, but entire ecosystems. Conservation of game and game habitat was proposed by forward-thinking sportsmen ...

In 1887 he helped found the Boone and Crockett Club, which became influential in conservation of game and habitat and called for scientific forest management and restrictions on the use of natural resources — ideas that, in those days, were considered radical.

One of the club’s great achievements was the battle to preserve Yellowstone, already a national park, from exploitation by mining and railroad interests. The club and Teddy enlisted Washington’s elite with intense lobbying efforts and, in 1894, helped frame the Yellowstone Protective Act, the first federal wildlife protection law.

That was the first major action of Teddy the conservationist ...

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