Title:
Theodore Roosevelt at Breton NWR
Location:
Brenton NWR, LA
Caption:
President Theodore Roosevelt created the first National
Wildlife Refuge. He was also a dedicated hunter as well
as a bird watcher. He is shown here at the Brenton NWR
in Louisiana. Six years after leaving the Presidency,
Theodore Roosevelt visited America's second national
wildlife refuge - Breton National Wildlife Refuge, a
string of islands in the Chandeleur chain in St. Bernard
Parish, Louisiana, designated a refuge by him in 1904.
By 1915, when Roosevelt visited, the region was still
a mixture of private and state lands, and the embryonic
Federal refuge; some of the low-lying Gulf of Mexico
islets and sandbars since have disappeared entirely,
victims of shifting tides and tropical storms. As recorded
in one of his autobiographies, "A Book LoverŐs
Holidays in the Open," Roosevelt tramped the shorelines
and bird rookeries of Breton refuge, watched a flight
of Black Skimmers, and contemplated the world, as he
approached the final four years of his life, from this
solitary perch here on Bird Island.
Creator:
Library of Congress
Source:
WV-TR- Historic CD
Publisher:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contributor:
National Conservation Training Center (USFWS)
File
size: 191 KB
Format:
JPEG image (image/jpeg)
Dimensions:
Screen: 1125px x 750px Print: 7.50 x 5.00 inches
Resolution:
150 dpi (mid, presentation quality)
Depth:
Full Color
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