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11. Frank Graham, Jr., The Audubon Ark: A History of the National Audubon Society (New York: Knopf, 1990), p. 10.
12. Henry David Thoreau, “Chesun-cook,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 2 (August 1858). Also see Thoreau, The Maine Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 160.
13. Doug Stewart, “How Conservation Grew from a Whisper to a Roar,” National Wildlife (December–January 1999).
14. “The Bisby Club’s Resort.” New York Times (June 8, 1890), p. 12. Also see, Ken Sprague, “History and Heritage Remembering 19th amd 20th Century Life,” Adirondack Express (July 25, 2006), p. 4.
15. William T. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life (New York: New York Zoological Society, 1913), p. 248.
16. Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (New York: Doubleday, 1910), p. 48.
17. T.R. to William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (June 12, 1900).
18. John Burroughs, Signs and Seasons (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1886), p. 213.
19. George Laycock, Wild Refuge (Garden City, N.Y.: American Museum of Natural History Press, 1969), pp. 12–20.
20. Jonathan Weiner, “Darwin’s Delay,” Slate (May 3, 2007).
21. John M. Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt: The Years of Decision,” in Elting E. Morrison (ed.), The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. 2 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951), Vol. 4, p. 1486.
22. Orr, Saving American Birds, p. 1.
23. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life, p. 15.
24. Erick Gill, “Pelican Island: 10 Years in the Making,” Vero Beach Magazine (February 2003), pp. 7–14.
25. Thomas Gilbert Pearson, Adventures in Bird Protection, p. 52. Also see, Robin W. Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation: A Study in Nature Protection (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), p. 11.
26. Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation, pp. 10–11, 23. Also see Mary Van Kleeck, A Seasoned Industry: A Study on the Millinery Trade in New York (Philadelphia, Pa.: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), pp. 10–23.
27. Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation, p. 3. Also see Stuart B. McIver, Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley: America’s First Martyr of the Environment (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2007), p. 4.
28. Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservations, p. 15.
29. “Maxim’s New Machine Gun,” New York Times (December 5, 1884), p. 3. New weapons such as the LeFever semiautomatic hammerless shotgun (1883) and the Maxim machine gun (1884) began replacing the outdated Civil War Gatling gun. Relatively easy to carry, these guns occasionally made their way into the hunting scene. Most of the time, however, plume hunters used shotguns.
30. Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation, p. 12.
31. Frank Graham, Jr., The Audubon Ark: A History of the National Audubon Society (New York: Knopf, 1990), p. 18.
32. Florida Audubon Society, “Who We Are: History of Audubon of Florida” (1999). Pamphlet.
33. Orr, Saving American Birds, p. 74.
34. “Audubon of Florida Timeline,” National Audubon Society (2009).
35. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Yearbook 1902 (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903).
36. “Society at Home and Abroad,” New York Times (October 20, 1901), p. 7. T.R. renamed the Executive Mansion the White House on October 12, 1901.
37. William Allen White quoted in Hermann Hagedorn and Sidney Wallach, A Theodore Roosevelt Round-Up (New York: Theodore Roosevelt Association, 1958), pp. 159–160.
38. “William Alford Richards: Cadastral Survey” (Cheyenne: Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming Archive).
39. William Reffalt, “Prologue to Pelican Island” (February 2003). Unpublished, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge Archive, Vero Beach, Fla.
40. There are numerous versions of the “I So Declare It” story all with slight variations, including Patricia O’Toole, When Trumpets Call (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), pp. 32–33, Lewis L. Gould, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (Lawrence: The University of Kansas Press, 1991), p. 111, and William H. Harbaugh, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Collier Books, 1967), p. 315. I combined these with information