Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is ordered that all lands owned by the United States within the following-described areas... be reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of the Interior as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.

Context

Executive Order 8685—Establishing the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge

02/13/1941

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