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Member Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 258 Location: Nordern MN

I've got a guest bedroom with blank walls. And I've been thinking about making it my "Hall of Fame" room. I'm foremost a duck man, professionally a forester, and generally a conservationist. Who's portraits should I include?

So far,
T. Roosevelt
Jimmy Robinson
Gordon MacQuarrie
Hans Albert Hochbaum
Aldo Leopold

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Nash Buckingham was one of the founding forces behind Ducks Unlimited.

How about Gordon MacQuarrie? He probably wrote more good duck huntin' stories than just about anyone!

From TR's opening address, the Governors' Conference (on conservation) May, 1908. The printed program had the title: Conservation as a National Duty

You have come hither at my request, so that we may join together to consider the question of the conservation and use of the great fundamental sources of wealth of this Nation. So vital is this question, that for the first time in our history the chief executive officers of the states separately, and of the states together forming the Nation, have met to consider it. It is the chief material question that confronts us, second only-and second always-to the great fundamental question of morality.

As a result of this Conference, Roosevelt:
1. Created a National Conservation commission chaired by Gifford Pinchot with commissions on; public lands, inland waterways, and national conservation.
2. Called a North American Conservation conference to enlist the aid of Canada and Mexico
3. Created five more National Parks
4. Proclaimed 16 National Monuments, including the Grand Canyon, Muir Woods, and the Gila Cliff Dwellings, New Mexico
5. Declared 13 new National Forests
6. Created 16 Federal Bird Refuges, starting with Pelican Island, FL
7. Established the first Federal Game Preserve at Wichita Forest, OK

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With your being a professional forester, I am surprised you didn't include Gifford Pinchot in your original list. My recollection is that he was the first to apply the term conservation as it related to natural resources, and advocated the principles of planned/managed use of the forests held in the public trust.

LT

I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time. Gifford Pinchot

Pinchot was governor of Penn. 1923-1927
More quotations http://thinkexist.com/quotes/gifford_pinchot/

Member Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 258 Location: Nordern MN

Very True, Liver Tick.

Gifford is a "maybe" at this point. Depends on how many others I come up with vs. available wall space!

Thanks!

NR

What about pic's of Rev, or hey how a bout a pic of one of those clunker sauers as a example of what not to be addicted to?

And from the 'Revdoc Hero's of Conservation' series- thuuuddd on...er...in...his deer...stand?

Rev, whats a hoot is that really looks like my hot tub. Nordic spa?

Member Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 665 Location: Louisiana

James Ford Bell Exclamation

As a fellow waterfowler, might I suggest John Clark Salyer, II. For his efforts as head of the Division of Wildlife Refuges, Salyer has become known as the "Father of the National Wildlife Refuge System." Under his direction, the system rose in area from 1.5 million acres in the mid-1930's to nearly 29 million acres upon his retirement in 1961. Salyer was the principle architect for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's duck restoration program of 1934-36.

According to George Laycock in his book, "The Sign of the Flying Goose," Salyer was to develop a waterfowl management program using the conservation principles of wildlife management espoused by Aldo Leopold. Such a program, based on habitat needs of migratory bird species, had never before been attempted on a national scale. .

Shortly after coming to work for the Biological Survey in 1934, the government issued him a car to travel around the country visiting refuges. Salyer had a fear of flying, so this vehicle provided him with the means to visit refuges in far-flung locations. According to Laycock, "within six weeks, he (Salyer) had driven 18,000 miles and drawn up plans for 600,000 acres (2,400 km²) of new refuge lands." Refuge managers reported that Salyer would drive hundreds of miles each day in his government-issued Oldsmobile to visit their refuge, then stay with the family overnight or for a meal before commencing on his journey to inspect another refuge on his itinerary. His memory of refuges and projects he inspected was remarkably clear until the day he died.

Unfortunatlely many waterfowlers never heard of the guy, but we ducknuts own him our gratitude.

Member Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 602 Location: western pa

How about Ding Darling ( I think that's sp. right)--- He painted the first Federal duck stamp although he was a cartoonist.

Gordon MacQuarrie . Being a lover of duck hunting and labs, that is the only choice.

Lynn Bogue Hunt for his efforts on the duck stamps and waterfoul art

Robertson & Pittman for the whole stamp program...