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Why did Roosevelt elk get its name?
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#63204. Asked by uclageographer.
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jimbo9
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Conserving our elk habitat
When elk came close to extinction around 1912 there were only about 126 of these animals, a decade later only approximately 12. Theodore Roosevelt and many of his fellow hunters took the lead in conserving the habitat of the elk and bringing them back in large numbers. Today many Americans are awakening to the realization that our wildlife must be continually protected if we wish to have them around for future generations.
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TabbyTom
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According to the Oxford English dictionary and a number of websites, the subspecies was named in honour of Theodore Roosevelt by Clinton Hart Merriam, who first identified it in the late 1890s. It’s not clear whether Merriam was influenced by Roosevelt’s reputation as a naturalist and conservationist.
www.lewis-clark.org/content/an_roose.htm
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robboy
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"In 1898 the American biologist C. Hart Merriam first described the elk found in the coastal rain forest (of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state). He identified it as a subspecies, and named it in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, who was an accomplished amateur naturalist and ardent conservationist."
http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=358
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