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Henry David Thoreau

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Wrote Life in the Woods.

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George Perkins Marsh

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Scientist/Vermont legislator.
Published Man and Nature in 1894

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John Muir

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Geologist/Naturalist
Lobbies for conservation laws

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Theodore Roosevelt

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

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Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover

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

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President Hoover

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

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Established conservation projects and public health projects
Established the CCC

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Rachel Carson

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Wrote Silent Spring about the effects of pesticides

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Paul Erlich

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

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Barry Commoner

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

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George H.W. Bush

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Weakened many environmental and pubic land use laws and policies

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Richard Nixon

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Established the EPA
Established the Endangered Species Act
Established the BLM

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Jimmy Carter

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

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Garrett Hardin

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

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Ronald Raegan

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

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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

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Gifford Pinchot

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First head of US Forest Service

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James Mason Hutchings

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

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Stephen T. Mather

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First director of the National Park Service

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Ernst Haeckel

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

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John James Audubon

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

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Howard Zahniser

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Led The Wilderness Society
Primary author of the Wilderness Act

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Albert Bierstadt

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Landscape painter of the western US

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Bill Clinton

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Strengthened environmental laws
Protect land
Cleaning land
Invest in clean energy

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David Brower

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

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