On March 14, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an Executive Order creating Pelican Island in Sebastian as the country’s first national wildlife refuge. Roosevelt went on to establish an additional 54 national wildlife refuges during his two terms and set historic conservation values for America. These values have grown into a system, which today consists of 542 National Wildlife Refuges on more than 95 million acres of America’s most important wildlife habitat. And it all started right here in Indian River County.
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