Retracing Theodore Roosevelt's New Forest walk, UK

Jun. 06, 1960 - In Teddy Roosevelt's Footsteps 50 years after. Ready to retrace and commemorate a 1910 walk through the New Forest, England, taken by Colonel (afterwards President) Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Edward (afterwards Lord) Grey, then British Foreign Secretary, are American and British naturalists, left to right: Lord Hurcomb, Chairman of the British Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Mr. Gustav Swanson, Professor of Conservation at Cornell University, New York; Mr. Peter Scott, Director of Britain's Wildfowl Trust, and Mrs. Scott; Mr. Carl W. Buchheister, President of the National Audubon Society of America; and Sir Julian Huxley. In his personal account of the June walk made 50 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt said, many of the trees, gnarled and aged, and its wildness, the lack of cultivation, the very ruggedness suggested my own country I passed no pleasanter 24 hours during my European Trip. The Roosevelt Grey friendship helped to pave the way for the Migratory Birds Treaty, negotiated through the US State Department and the British Foreign Office, probably the world's most successful international conservation measure

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