National Parks In The Early 20th Century

In the early 20th century many parks and forests were finally getting recognition and being preserved for the future. National parks and forests have been included in society for so long that without them, nothing would really be the same. Most places like this would be a surprising fact to have known about in the 19th- 20th century because most people would talk about urbanization in the big cities. The gilded age took place in the early years of the 20th century which was the period where the U.S. really started the whole economic growth change. It was the age of fast industrialization and urbanization mostly happening in the more factory based cities with not much natural or healthy conditions. Before the gilded age was the progressive era,
“a period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890’s to the 1920’s”. Both periods really depended on each other to happen because they go together to form one whole and in between it all was a point where natural places were important.
In the year of 1901 theodore Roosevelt became president after the assassination of president William Mckinley.
Roosevelt, was very supportive of national parks and would often make speeches about conserving them for the future. Theodore, during the progressive era, was a progressive and he adored nature in all its forms. The day before he became president, Theodore Roosevelt had gone to lake tear-in-the-clouds located in the Adirondack mountains. The adirondack mountains/parks is still being preserved in upstate New York and although this park isn’t very spoken of, it’s still one of the most conserved parks there is. If it weren’t for so many people really taking their time to keep these places as natural as possible, the urbanization and economic growth would have taken over most of these national forests today. When Theodore Roosevelt had become president, he sort of pushed our nation to look more towards its natural resources which was technically the making of the conservation movement. The beginning cause of all this was that Roosevelt had been a sportsman-hunter and when he got the chance to actually hunt in north america, after seeing all the animals and species become extinct, he felt that it was society's fault for the loss of their natural
resources. America and so many other places would've most likely been overpowered by factories and technology based improvements if Theodore Roosevelt, the “conservation president” wouldn’t have taken most of his time to actually think about a world without any nature. Most of these forests and parks would've been used as places to build much more factories but the thing with them is that it helped most people get a look into a world that wasn't full of these factories and it also served for a place for different species to keep living for our good and theirs. But it wasn't only Roosevelt that tried to keep it safe, progressives were one of the many groups that helped out in conserving these resources by just keeping them clean and blocking them off from most industrial expansions. All in all, we should be grateful for the things that we have today because these conserved places are important and we wouldn't be able to imagine the world without them now.