Edit Timeline: History:Pelican Island First National Wildlife Refuge 1902-03-14

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On March 14, 1902, with the encouragement of Paul Kroegel, Frank Chapman and the Florida Audubon Society, President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island in the Indian River Lagoon as the first federal bird reservation, in what would become the first wildlife refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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