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65. T.R. to Raymond Ditmars ([n.d.] 1907).
66. Ibid. This letter is quoted in Paul Russell Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist (New York: Harper, 1956), p. 143.
67. T.R., “Notes on Florida Turtles,” American Museum Journal, Vol. 17, No. 5 (May 1917).
68. Don Arp, Jr., “Hunting the Dragons: TR and the World’s Crocodilians,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2001), pp. 5–9.
69. John Mortimer Murphy, “Alligator Shooting in Florida,” Outing Magazine (1899).
70. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (New York: Macmillan, 1902), pp. 362–363.
71. Joseph Bucklin Bishop (ed.), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children (New York: Scribner, 1914), p. 184.
72. T.R., African Game Trails (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), p. 341.
73. Michael Grunwald, The Swamp (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 128.
74. “Dr. John C. Gifford, Forestry Authority,” New York Times (June 27, 1949), p. 27.
75. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler The United States of America (New York: Appleton, 1894), p. 278.
76. “John Clayton Gifford,” in Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida’s Natural History, 1884–1934, Everglades Archival Library and Museum, Fla.
77. Bureau of Reclamation, Reclamation Project Data (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1948).
78. I. F. Eldredge, “Fire Problem on the Florida Native Forest,” Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters (Washington, D.C.: Judd and Detweiller, 1911), pp. 166—168.
79. Thomas Barbour, The Vanishing Eden: A Naturalist’s Florida (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1944).
80. T.R., “Notes on Florida Turtles,” American Museum Journal, Vol. 17 (1917).
81. Oliver P. Pearson, “The Metabolism of Hummingbirds,” The Condor, Vol. 52, No. 4 (July–August, 1950), pp. 145–152.
82. “U.S. Fish and Wildlife Overview/ History,” Island Bay National Wildlife Refuge Archive, Sanibel, Fla. (April 9, 2009).
83. On October 23, 1970, President Richard Nixon, recognizing how exceptional the islands were, declared the refuge a Wilderness Area. Thus no tourists are allowed to visit them.
84. “U.S. Fish and Wildlife Overview/ History.”
85. Mark V. Barrow, Jr., A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 142.
86. William Dutcher to William Moody (July 2, 1903), in Auk, Vol. 21 (January 1904).
87. Herbert K. Job, Report to William Dutcher (1904).
88. Hermann Hagedorn and Sidney Wallach, A Theodore Roosevelt Round-Up (New York: Theodore Roosevelt Association, 1958), p. 64.
89. For Darling’s childhood experiences I consulted the Darling Papers, Special Collections, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
90. David L. Lendt, Ding: The Life of Jay Norwood Darling (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1979), pp. 3–17.
91. Joseph P. Dudley, “Jay Norwood ‘Ding’ Darling: A Retrospect,” Conservation Biology, Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 1993), pp. 200–203. (This article includes two of Darling’s cartoons.)
92. Lendt, Ding, p. 21.
93. Worth Mathewson, William L. Finley: Pioneer Wildlife Photographer (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1986), p. 9.
94. Eric Jay Dolan and Bob Pumaine, The Duck Stamp Story (privately published), pp. 34–77.
95. Ding Darling U.S. Fish and Wildlife Files. Sanibel, Florida U.S. Fish and Wild-life, December 18, 2008.
96. Ibid.
97. “Ding Darling National Wildlife Center,” Duck Report, No. 32 (2008).
98. Author interview with Ding Darling’s grandson, Christopher D. Koss, Key Biscayne, Fla. (November 4, 2007).
99. Elting Morison, “Introduction,” The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The Big Stick: 1905–1907, Vol. V (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954), p. xiv.
100. Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things,” in Collected Poems: 1957–1982 (San Francisco: North Point, 1985). Also see Rodger Shlickeisen, “Finding Solace with the Wood Drake,” Fish and Wildlife News (Spring 2008), p. 45.
101. Mathewson, William L. Finley, p. 57.
102. “Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges,” Mission Statement, Klamath Basin National Wildlife