For example, the bison were overhunted nearly to the point of dying out entirely, and the protection of the lands on which they roamed was a large part of what brought the species back from the brink of extinction. Another key factor in saving species was the initial establishment of the U.S. Forest Service and the fact that it was given authority to protect the parks from poachers as well.
All of these factors relate directly back to what made Theodore Roosevelt great. The initial overcoming of his illnesses as a child was noteworthy, as he had to be willing to put in the effort to change his life for the better. He was able to go from being constantly sick to eventually spending days or even weeks hiking and camping out in the areas that would soon become the first national parks and refuges to attempt to catalog some of the areas and garner even more support for his ideas of public lands for the