People

Question 1

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 1

Wrote Life in the Woods.

Question 2

George Perkins Marsh

Answer 2

Scientist/Vermont legislator.
Published Man and Nature in 1894

Question 3

John Muir

Answer 3

Geologist/Naturalist
Lobbies for conservation laws

Question 4

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 4

Established wildlife reserves
Increase national forest reserves by three times
Best environmental president

Question 5

Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover

Answer 5

Promoted resource removal from public lands at low prices to stimulate economic growth

Question 6

President Hoover

Answer 6

Proposed to sell all public land to private interest for economic development

Question 7

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 7

Established conservation projects and public health projects
Established the CCC

Question 7

Rachel Carson

Answer 7

Wrote Silent Spring about the effects of pesticides

Question 8

Paul Erlich

Answer 8

described the relationships among population growth, resource use, and pollution.

Question 9

Barry Commoner

Answer 9

Described the relationships among population growth, resource use, and pollution.

Question 10

George H.W. Bush

Answer 10

Weakened many environmental and pubic land use laws and policies

Question 11

Richard Nixon

Answer 11

Established the EPA
Established the Endangered Species Act
Established the BLM

Question 12

Jimmy Carter

Answer 12

Was responsive to environmental concerns
Tripled the land in the National Wildness system
Doubled the land in the National Park System

Question 12

Garrett Hardin

Answer 12

Described the relationships among population growth, resource use, and pollution

Question 13

Ronald Raegan

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Increased private energy, mineral development, and timber cutting on public land

Question 14

Aldo Leopold

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Member of U.S. forest service
One founder of the conservation/environmental movements during 20th century
Strong land ethics

Question 15

Gifford Pinchot

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First head of US Forest Service

Question 16

James Mason Hutchings

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One of the principal promoters for Yosemite
Hired John Muir
Hotelier/squatter of Yosemite

Question 17

Stephen T. Mather

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First director of the National Park Service

Question 18

Ernst Haeckel

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A German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist
Supported Darwin’s theories of evolution

Question 19

John James Audubon

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Made a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America.
French-American

Question 20

Howard Zahniser

Answer 20

Led The Wilderness Society
Primary author of the Wilderness Act

Question 21

Albert Bierstadt

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Landscape painter of the western US

Question 21

Bill Clinton

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Strengthened environmental laws
Protect land
Cleaning land
Invest in clean energy

Question 22

David Brower

Answer 22

Started many different environmental organizations Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth, Earth Island Institute, North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.