Forest Conservation With Particular Reference to Theodore Roosevelt
Abstract
The giant pines that sheltered DeSoto and his followers on their ill-fated expedition in 1541 to the Mississipți River have disappeared. Along the Allegheny and Appalachian ranges the vast forest that once harborel the hostile Narragansetts and Iroquois is now but a memory. When the London Company settled at James- town, Virginia, in 1607, it found an unlimited pine and hardwood forest confronting it on every side. The early settler's ax found a way out of the wilderness by clearings as did their predecessors, the Indians, for their corn fields, but the white man was more wasteful.
Subject Area
History|American history
Recommended Citation
Whelan, Mary Cecilia, "Forest Conservation With Particular Reference to Theodore Roosevelt" (1938). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28960377.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28960377
