English: 1908 US editorial cartoon on Theodore Roosevelt and conservation. Roosevelt is pointing to a sign with a quote:
"Protect and preserve the remaining forests upon public lands from devastation and destruction which have been the fate of those in forest sections of the country."
From a statement by Commissioner of the General Land Office William A. Richards on March 9, 1903:
The President's purpose and desire is to protect and preserve the remaining forests upon public lands from the devestation [sic] and destruction which has been the fate of those in large portions of the Appalachian mountains and in other forest sections of the country.
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