What Was Theodore Roosevelt Doing To The Environment

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Theodore Roosevelt was the best progressive era president for a lot of reasons, but the best thing he did was creating nature preserves to keep our environment safe. In the text it says, "Roosevelt set aside 125 million acres of timberlands as federal reserves, over three times the amount preserved by all of his predecessors combined. He also performed similar actions with coal and water reserves, thus guaranteeing the preservation of some natural resources for future generations" (Newman 3). Roosevelt realized that if he didn't act soon the environment and future generations would be destitute for what the current population was doing to the world. Many environmentalists were extremely worried about the condition of the forests in the 1900s.