Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

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

Context

Executive Order 7833—Establishing Hewitt Lake Migratory Waterfowl Refuge

03/06/1938

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