body .bignum { font-size: 150px; font-family: bureau-grot-compressed, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; font-style: normal; line-height: .7; padding-top: 23px; } body .bignumsmall { font-size: 89px; font-family: bureau-grot-compressed, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; font-style: normal; line-height: .7; padding-top: 10px; } .nas-article.nas-article-full-width .article-body .text-container .bean-image { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } The world’s largest set of lands dedicated to preserving wildlife started with a five-acre scrap of sand and guano. In 1903, to protect a raucous rookery of Brown Pelicans from poachers, President Theodore Roosevelt designated Florida’s Pelican Island as the first unit of what would become the National Wildlife Refuge System. Since then the network has grown to 568 refuges spanning 95 million acres. More than 200 of them were designated specifically to safeguard...