In case you missed this note in the recent Sierra Magazine:

Theodore Roosevelt established the National Forest and National Wildlife
Refuge Systems.  A century later, the Bush adminsitration is working to undo
its Republican predecessor's achievements.

*Roosevelt preserved 240 million acres.

*The Bush adminsitration has weakened protections
on 234 million acres.

"Shortsighted men...in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob
our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful
and beautiful wild things."---Theodore Roosevelt

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