Conservation

            Roosevelt began the environmental conservation in order to keep the beauty of the American land and its resources. He felt that the government should know the differences “Between the man who skins the land and the man who develops the country,” which he then states that he is working with “And only with, the man who develops the country.” In 1902, he agreed with using federal funds that are received from the public land sales and pay for irrigation and land development projects in an act called The Newlands Reclamation Act. Gifford Pinchot was a friend of Roosevelt. He was made the head of the U.S. Forest Service that was established in 1905. This service was to save forests and forest life.

            The two men believed that resource management trained people should have the same values for the landscape as the others who applied for industry cites. They declined the Laissez-Faire argument and thought that the best way to conserve forests are to sell them to lumber jacks, this way they could sell and take care of the land for that was the major source of their business. Roosevelt had added 100 million acres to many protected national forests. He founded five national parks and fifty-one federal wildlife reservations.