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upon the Condition of Affairs in the Territory of Alaska, A (Elliott), 36

“Revealing and Concealing Coloration in Birds and Animals” (Roosevelt), 111

Rexroth, Kenneth, 398, 400

Reynolds, Harry, 57

Rhode, Clarence, 368–69, 493

Arctic NWR and, 463, 467, 468, 469–71

death of, 475–76

Rhode, Jack, 475

Richardson, Wilds Preston, 79

Richardson Highway, 79

Richfield Oil Corporation, 467, 469

Ring of Bright Water (Maxwell), 431–32

“Riprap” (Snyder), 399

Rivers, Ralph, 476, 489

Rock and Surf (Adams), 334

Rockefeller, John D., 217

Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 318–19

Rocky Mountains, 134

Rodgers, William H., Jr., 376

Rodman, Hugh, 219

Rogers, George, 404

Rogers, Will, 182, 283, 412

Romanes, George John, 12, 87

Roosevelt, Alice, 83

Roosevelt, Archie, 106, 164

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 206, 223, 227, 245, 250–54, 256, 280, 314–18, 326

Roosevelt, Kermit, 67, 74, 86, 95, 119, 172

Roosevelt, Quentin, 164

Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell, 54, 55, 153

Roosevelt, Ted, 105, 106

Roosevelt, Theodore, 35, 37, 232, 370, 462, 494

Adirondacks and, 234

Alaska Purchase and, 31

birds and, 62–64, 87–88, 156–58

Boy Scouts of America and, 101–3

Brady and, 44

Bronx Zoo and, 151

Camp Fire Club of America and, 95–97

constitutional rights for Alaskans and, 36

Curtis’s photographs influence on, 45–47

death and legacy of, 203–8, 211

election of 1912 and, 98, 107, 111–12, 115–20

federal law and, 48–49

forest preservation and, 48–62

Grand Canyon and, 164–65

Harriman Expedition’s influence on, 38–45

interest in Alaska and Arctic, 24–26, 67–71

in later life, 172–76

letter to Leopold, 172

on Muir, 168

national monument designation established by, 158

as naturalist, 100, 112–14

“new nationalism” and, 98–99, 106

Nobel Prize and, 86

as not antidevelopment, 79–80

popular authors’ defense of, 89–93

primary tenets of, 47–48, 65–66

protection of bull moose, 108–9

Roosevelt, Theodore (cont.)

review of and support of Hornaday’s Our Vanishing Wild Life, 149–61, 211

Sheldon and, 128, 129, 136

snowy owl and, 23–24, 37

speaking on Africa, 99–100

Taft administration and, 73–74, 82–85, 98

Taft’s lack of support for conservation policies of, 72–81, 88–89, 91, 207

Thayer and, 111

totem poles and, 30

Vreeland, 146–47

Wilson’s policies and, 161–62

Yosemite and, 94

Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr., 42–43

Roosevelt elk (Cervus roosevelti), 122, 127, 348–49

Ross Dam, 391

Ross’s gull (Rhodostethia rosea), 439

Rough Riders, 41, 116, 172

Round River (Leopold), 357

Rowan, Carl, 495

Rowling, J. K., 24

Runte, Alfred, 143

Rushmore, Mount, 222

Russia

exploitation of Alaska, 27, 32

purchase of Alaska from, 5, 31–32, 36

see also Pribilof Islands

Russian-American Company, 32

Russian Orthodox Church, 32

Russo-Japanese War, 86


“Sadie” (Matthiesen), 435

Saint Elias mountains, 134

Saint Lawrence Seaway, 362

Saint Lazaria bird reservation, 64, 159

Saint Matthew Island Group, 159

Salamina (Kent), 229

salmon. See fish and fishing

Salten, Felix, 347

Salzmann, Siegmund, 347

Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold), 65–66, 295, 361, 401

sandhill crane (Grus canadensis), 153

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, 3, 9, 15, 42

San Souci, Daniel, 497

Sarasin, Paul, 86

Sarber, Hosea, 229

Saving America’s Wildlife (Dunlap), 301

Schaller, George, 375

Scheffer, Victor B., 284

Schickel, Richard, 346

Schrank, John, 119

Scientific Monthly, 244, 361

Scoresby, William, 24–25

Scratching the Beat Surface (McClure), 403

Scribner, Arthur H., 95

Scribner’s Monthly, 3, 86

Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Kerouac), 414

Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 300, 351, 449

Seal Island (film), 343–47, 356

Seal Treaty (1911), 152

seals

Disney’s efforts to protect, 343–47, 356

fur seals, 97–98

slaughtered on Pribilof Island, 34–35, 48, 53, 89, 97–98

T. Roosevelt and Hornaday’s efforts to protect, 151–53, 160

sea otters, 34, 152, 426–27, 429–34

Sears, John, 252

Seaton, Fay, 464, 465

Seaton, Fred, 464–66, 472n

Arctic NWR and, 463–64, 466–69, 473–74, 476, 488–91, 493–94

Seaton, Gladys, 465

seaweed, 416

Sedna (sea goddess), 421

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