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Teddy Roosevelt's Elk
Written by Brenda Z. Guiberson Illustrated by Patrick O'Brien Henry Holt, 1997
This is a story not only about the magnificent elk, but also about an important chapter in American history, an introduction to one of the most influential pioneers of the modern conservation
movement, President Theodore Roosevelt.
The author pays tribute to Teddy Roosevelt's achievements in wildlife conservation by noting that, aside from the disappearance of wolves, the
lives of the robust elk named after him, of which the largest population survives in Washington State's Olympic National Park, are not much
different now than during his lifetime. Between two glimpses of Roosevelt on his sojourn to the Dakota Territory in 1884 --first
surveying vast herds of elk and bison in an unspoiled valley, then struggling through a soggy, nightmarish landscape of tree stumps and
animal bones a year later, Guiberson sandwiches a brief look at a Mount Olympus elk calf's first year, from birth through mating season to a
hard winter's end. Use this to introduce national parks, the conservation movement, an impressive wild animal, or an equally
impressive president. --Booklist
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