Question

Read the passage from President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1903 speech to the Society of American Foresters.


You must remember that the forest which contributes nothing to the wealth, progress, or safety of the country is of no interest to the government, and it should be of little to the forester. Your attention should be directed not to the preservation of the forests as an end in itself, but as the means for preserving and increasing the prosperity of the Nation. Forestry is the preservation of forests by wise use. We shall succeed, not by preventing the use, but by making the forests of use to the settler, the rancher, the miner, the man who lives in the neighborhood, and indirectly the man who may live hundreds of miles off, down the course of some great river which has its rise among the forests.



Which view of forests does Roosevelt express?

They are sacred places of wild beauty.


They are natural resources to be developed.


They are best set aside for public recreation.


They are useful mostly to people who live near them.

Answer 1

They are natural resources to be developed.