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To dare mighty things: Theodore Roosevelt's intense passion for politics and the natural world helped shape America's national parks.(Cover story)
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As a rancher in North Dakota in the 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt described the song of the meadowlark as "a cadence of wild sadness." Years later on a Louisiana hunting trip, he marveled at the size and plumage of the nearly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker. In 1907, he was the last trained ornithologist to observe passenger pigeons in the wild.
America's 26th president was a conservation-minded cowboy in spectacles and a three-piece suit, a hunter who championed hunting regulations, an urban politician who found ways to connect to the natural world. He loved birds, open spaces, and back-busting ranch work. And he carved a path for ...
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