At the turn of the twentieth century, members of the Boone and Crockett Club changed the way the world looked at animals—literally. They designed a new kind of zoo, which educated visitors, eliminated cramped concrete cages and conserved rare species. We still use that model today. 

In 1887, Theodore Roosevelt returned from his Elkhorn Ranch in the Dakota Territory with an idea. He would assemble a group of like-minded, influential men to turn the tide in favor of conserving our nation’s resources, which, at the time, were vanishing quickly. This is how he did it. 

By PJ DelHomme 

Its slim bullets killed all out of proportion to their weight, charming hunters and changing an industry.

As Euro-Americans spread across our continent, they cleared land for agriculture and consumed raw materials for industry. The “public domain,” land that belonged to the federal estate, was essentially without protection. By the 1880s, this misuse was no longer tolerable, and efforts began to maintain, protect, and manage these lands for the public welfare. One great American—Gifford Pinchot—…

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Now is the time for you to urge the Obama administration and Congress to support full and dedicated funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million a year.