Heroes for a Better World

Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882-1945)

birthdate: January 30
birthplace:
Hyde Park, New York

Though from different political parties, cousins Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt had a lot in common besides their last name. Both of them fought greedy industrialists and both of them were environmentalists. As President, Franklin not only built upon but greatly expanded the environmental policies instituted by his cousin Theodore. He focused on forestry, national parks, water conservation, land management, wildlife preservation and the general conservation of natural resources. With his wife Eleanor as a strong public advocate, he created the Civilan Conservation Corps during the Depression, which gave work to young men in preventing soil erosion, planting trees, and building firebreaks and wilderness trails. Although Franklin Roosevelt was faced with two of the most difficult crises in American history, the Depression and World War II, he believed that conserving the environment was tied to "liberty" for the community as well as the individual, one of the most basic of American principles. And so, through all of those dangerous years, he presided over what has since become known as "the Golden Age of Conservation".

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