what was his contribution in safeguarding the environment?
Roosevelt was active in expanding, funding, and promoting the National Park and National Forest systems.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt was active in expanding, funding, and promoting the National Park and National Forest systems.
who was the president in world war ii Franklin D. Roosevelt what were his other professions? Senator and assistant secretary of the Navy
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Franklin D. Roosevelt [SEP] Conservation and the environment
Roosevelt had a lifelong interest in the environment and conservation starting with his youthful interest in forestry on his family estate. Although Roosevelt was never an outdoorsman or sportsman on Theodore Roosevelt's scale, his growth of the national systems were comparable. Roosevelt was active in expanding, funding, and promoting the National Park and National Forest systems. Under Roosevelt, their popularity soared, from three million visitors a year at the start of the decade to 15.5 million in 1939. The Civilian Conservation Corps enrolled 3.4 million young men and built of trails, planted two billion trees, and upgraded of dirt roads.