{"id":12882,"date":"2016-06-27T06:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T12:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=12882"},"modified":"2016-06-27T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:01:39","slug":"montana-ethic-project-what-we-owe-theodore-roosevelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/06\/montana-ethic-project-what-we-owe-theodore-roosevelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Ethic Project: What we owe Theodore Roosevelt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joey and Libbie Early<\/p>

Former Secretary of State Bob Brown says no president was as closely related to Montana as Theodore Roosevelt, and no president had a more lasting impact on the state.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the 17th\u00a0chapter of the 32-part video series \u201cThe Montana Ethic Project.\u201d This chapter features former Montana Secretary of State Bob Brown speaking on “Teddy Roosevelt’s Shadow in Montana’s Big Sky.”<\/p>\n

You can watch the whole video below. Here is how it begins:<\/p>\n

“Theodore Roosevelt disliked the nickname Teddy. However, he loved Montana, and he is deeply connected\u00a0to our state.”<\/p>\n

Here is another, edited excerpt from Brown’s\u00a0presentation<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“Of great present-day significance to Montana, TR directly used his power to protect our natural\u00a0resources. When he became president in 1901, the United States contained 43 million acres of land\u00a0which were reserved for the public. When he left office in 1909 he had expanded that number to 194\u00a0million acres.<\/p>\n

“Because of TR, Montana has the Beaverhead-Deer lodge National Forest, the Kootenai\u00a0National Forest, the Custer National Forest, the Lolo National Forest, the Helena National Forest and\u00a0the Kaniksu National Forest. Only Alaska, California, and Idaho have more forestland than Montana.<\/p>\n

“This great and far-sighted accomplishment did not come without great controversy. When TR created\u00a0the U.S. Forest Service in 1905 to oversee the management of the forest reserves, the new agency and\u00a0the forests it supervised was denounced by many high-level politicians including Montana Gov.\u00a0Edwin L. Norris and Montana United States Sen. William A. Clark. Montanans don\u2019t need any more\u00a0federal land grabs, protested Gov. Norris. Sen. Clark angrily stated in regard to the conservation\u00a0of natural resources that it was up to this generation to take care of itself, and for future generations\u00a0to take care of themselves.”<\/p>\n