these friends of roosevelt, and a man named frank chapman and others. and they got to t.r., that was a fellow birder, and said, we are going to lose the birds of florida if you don't do anything. and roosevelt looked into it, and famously said, if there is anything that will stop me, i will declare a pelican resort. and it was the first time that land was set aside for a species. for the first time you had such things as yellowstone. and there were signs saying no trespassing. and i had to come to florida to see this. and there is a statue in florida, paul craigleman grew up in germany, and it was bad luck to kill a n stork and he came to new york and chicago, and as a teenager arrived in florida across from pelican island. and he saw the people slaughtering the birds. and he took a shotgun and pointed it to those who would dare to approach. he was the pelican watcher, he was bit of a cook. -kook. and roosevelt heard of him, and his first game wardens, two of them were murdered down there. i write about the murder of particularly of guy bradley in my bo

ornithologists that were friends of roosevelt, a man named frank chapman in particular i write about quite a lot, they eventually got to teddy roosevelt and said we're going to lose the birth of florida if you don't do anything. roosevelt looked into it a little and then phamisith said "is there anything to stop me? i so declare a federal bird preservation." -- roosevelt said that. this was the first time land was set aside to be run and controlled for species. there were signs "no trespassing." displays was off-limits. to these types of documents are year. in florida you can talk to people, but to come here to see documents like this. if you go down to sebastian, fla. there is a statue of this man in florida. is always right there. paul craig will grow and germany. he loved storks. it was bad luck to kill a start in northern europe. * christian andersen had a folk tale about the store, that babies were brought by storks. as a teenager he arrived in florida right across from pelican island where roosevelt's day. he saw people slaughtering the birds. paul started independently taking

a man named frank chapman i write about quite a bit in my book. william dutcher being prominent. they eventually got to t.r. and said, we're going to leave the birds of florida if you don't do anything. roosevelt said -- looked into it a little and then famously said, is there anything to stop me? i so declare it a federal bird reservation. and just grabbed pelican island. it was the first time ever that land was set aside to be run and controlled by a species. before that, you had, like, a yellow stone, but it was for people. this was off-limits. there were signs. no trespassing. and so these types of documents are here. i could go to the island, look at the birds, talk to people. i had to come here to see documents like this. here's the man -- if you go down to sebastian, florida, there's a statue of him down in florida. his home is right there. paul craigle grew up in germany and he loved storks because you weren't allowed to kill storks when they're in your chimneys because it was bad luck to kill a stork in northern europe. the famous hans christian anderson folk tale about