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President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation that changed it from a monument into a National Park in 1919. Theodore Roosevelt however is considered to be the founder, He named it a game preserve in the hope of protecting the natural environment and added National Forest lands to it in an effort to isolate it from human contact.

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Theodore Roosevelt who was an early proponent of National Park status for the Grand Canyon.

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the Grand Canyon had this big, thick glass platform put in it and now tourists can go on it and look around, no worries, the glass is very stable and thick.

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Theodore Roosevelt who was an advocate for National Park status.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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