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How Birding Inspired FDR’s Environmentalism

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Even as a child, Franklin Roosevelt was being hailed as an authority on Hudson River bird life. His passion would mold his—and his country’s—ideas about protecting the land.

Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley
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Douglas Brinkley

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