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Article: Teddy Roosevelt: Seattle's pioneer environmentalist?(Joel Connelly)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 4, 2009
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Standing atop 5,400-foot Bogachiel Peak, Mickie remarked on snags in the meadow below, only to have the "snags" get up and swiftly move into the woods: She and I had surprised a herd of Roosevelt Elk at a stupendous Olympic National Park viewpoint.
Ought we to know that Roosevelt Elk are named for the president who saved them from poachers? Does it matter that he used a new law called the Antiquities Act to designate the Mt. Olympus National Monument just before leaving office?
Yes!
The struggle against those described by Theodore Roosevelt as "despoilers of nature" continues a century later. A Republican president who loved open spaces and ...