History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0784 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Conservation
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The idea
Roosevelt placed about two hundred thirty million acres under federal protection, including more than one hundred fifty national forests, five national parks, fifty-one bird preserves and eighteen monuments.
In practice
Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the Forest Service, directing the federal forests.
Where people slip
Unit two carried the arid West; this unit carries conservation as federal policy.
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