In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt: -vetoed a bill authorizing a National Conservation Commission. -used the Forest Reserve Act to protect over 170 million acres of forest. -angered many conservationists by his appointment of Gifford Pinchot, a businessman with no experience in conservation, as head of the Division of Forestry. -believed strongly that natural resources should be preserved but felt that this was a matter for state, not federal, action. -angered western hunters by closing much of the western public lands.

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