Teddy Roosevelt and conservation
Roosevelt was the first nation's conservationists president and he addressed the need to preserve the woodland lands and mountain ranges as a place of refuge and withdrawal from the world. As seen in this picture he is standing in the middle of the woodlands with 3 men and it expresses his passionate interest in the wilderness regions. He wanted to change from exploiting the natural resources thus signing the Newlands Reclamation Bill, which used money from ferderal land sales to build reservoirs and irrigation works to promote agriculture in the arid west. In the picture he's also in a position of power and dominance which depicts how he felt very empowered to make vsignificant changes in this domain. roosevelt used his presidential authority to issue executive orders to create 150 new national foresees, increasing the amount of protected land from 42 million acres to 172 acres.