People Flashcards
Henry David Thoreau
Wrote Life in the Woods.
George Perkins Marsh
Scientist/Vermont legislator.
Published Man and Nature in 1894
John Muir
Geologist/Naturalist
Lobbies for conservation laws
Theodore Roosevelt
Established wildlife reserves
Increase national forest reserves by three times
Best environmental president
Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
Promoted resource removal from public lands at low prices to stimulate economic growth
President Hoover
Proposed to sell all public land to private interest for economic development
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Established conservation projects and public health projects
Established the CCC
Rachel Carson
Wrote Silent Spring about the effects of pesticides
Paul Erlich
described the relationships among population growth, resource use, and pollution.
Barry Commoner
Described the relationships among population growth, resource use, and pollution.
George H.W. Bush
Weakened many environmental and pubic land use laws and policies
Richard Nixon
Established the EPA
Established the Endangered Species Act
Established the BLM
Jimmy Carter
Was responsive to environmental concerns
Tripled the land in the National Wildness system
Doubled the land in the National Park System
Garrett Hardin
Described the relationships among population growth, resource use, and pollution
Ronald Raegan
Increased private energy, mineral development, and timber cutting on public land
Aldo Leopold
Member of U.S. forest service
One founder of the conservation/environmental movements during 20th century
Strong land ethics
Gifford Pinchot
First head of US Forest Service
James Mason Hutchings
One of the principal promoters for Yosemite
Hired John Muir
Hotelier/squatter of Yosemite
Stephen T. Mather
First director of the National Park Service
Ernst Haeckel
A German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist
Supported Darwin’s theories of evolution
John James Audubon
Made a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America.
French-American
Howard Zahniser
Led The Wilderness Society
Primary author of the Wilderness Act
Albert Bierstadt
Landscape painter of the western US
Bill Clinton
Strengthened environmental laws
Protect land
Cleaning land
Invest in clean energy
David Brower
Started many different environmental organizations
Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth, Earth Island Institute, North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.
