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After William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became our 25th President. America¹s natural resources were threatened. Species like the bison and beaver were endangered; others were extinct. Soil fertility was low and about four-fifths of ....

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.... two of his cousins started the ³Roosevelt Museum of Natural History.² The skull stayed on a bookshelf in the Roosevelt household throughout the remainder of his childhood, and items such as bird nests, insects, minerals, and shells were added to the Museum¹s collection. At age thirteen Roosevelt took lessons in taxidermy and started a book-study on mammals and birds. In Roosevelt¹s freshman year of college at Harvard, he intended to become an outdoor naturalist. Discouragement in the naturalist field instead led him to politics, where his interests could translate into more visible activism. In 1881, Roosevelt was elected to the New York S ....