Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to S. B. M. Young
Roosevelt TR. 1908. To: Young SB. Re: Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to S. B. M. Young
"I do not think any more cougars (mountain lions) should be killed in the park. Game is abundant. We want to profit by what has happened in the English preserves, where it proved to be bad for the grouse itself to kill off all the peregrine falcons and all the other birds of prey. It may be advisable, in case the ranks of the deer and antelope right around the Springs should be too heavily killed out, to kill some of the cougars there, but in the rest of the park I certainly would not killl any of them. On the contrary, they ought to be let alone."
- Type
- Administrative
- Authors
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date of Issue
- 1908-01-22
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- YELL
- Keywords
- Hunting, Letter, Management, Mountain Lion (Felis concolor)