-Discovered 25 types of birds -Made the book Birds of America

-Accidentally burned down 300 acres of Walden Woods before moving there -Wrote his book Walden based off of him living in nature for 2 years

-Wrote a book (Man and Nature) based off of how humans could be a part in global change

-The first geologist to explore the Colorado River & Passage through Grand Canyon -2nd director of the U.S. Geological Survey

-Founded the Sierra Club -Believed all life forms are equally important -Lost battle to try and prevent a dam from being built -Wrote My first summer in the sierras and our national parks

-First chief of the US Forest Service -Founded the Society of American Foresters -Had a falling out with Muir -Wrote Breaking New Ground

-Helped pass the Antiquities Act and the Lacey Act

-Was president of the US -Made US Forest service -Created Land Reservations -Made Pinchot first chief of US Forest Service -Wrote Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Winning of the West

-Started the development of the App. Trail

-Amateur bird watcher -Preserved bird species -Bought Hawk Mountain to prevent hunting

-Found the Wilderness Society which expands # of acres in the US - Wrote Alaska Wilderness and High Peaks of the Adi.

-Writings influenced the development of environmental ethics -Wrote Game Management and A Sand Country Almanac

-Came up with the concept of ecology to study the relationships of nature rather than study discipline in only isolation -Wrote Fundamentals of Ecology and First Ecology Textbook

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AP- Enviromentalists

First 13 Enviromentalists

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John Audubon	-Discovered 25 types of birds -Made the book Birds of America
Henry David Thoreau	-Accidentally burned down 300 acres of Walden Woods before moving there -Wrote his book Walden based off of him living in nature for 2 years
George Perkins Marsh	-Wrote a book (Man and Nature) based off of how humans could be a part in global change
John Wesley Powell	-The first geologist to explore the Colorado River & Passage through Grand Canyon -2nd director of the U.S. Geological Survey
John Muir	-Founded the Sierra Club -Believed all life forms are equally important -Lost battle to try and prevent a dam from being built -Wrote My first summer in the sierras and our national parks
Gifford Pinchot	-First chief of the US Forest Service -Founded the Society of American Foresters -Had a falling out with Muir -Wrote Breaking New Ground
John F. Lacey	-Helped pass the Antiquities Act and the Lacey Act
Theodore Roosevelt	-Was president of the US -Made US Forest service -Created Land Reservations -Made Pinchot first chief of US Forest Service -Wrote Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Winning of the West
Benton Mackaye	-Started the development of the App. Trail
Rosalie Edge	-Amateur bird watcher -Preserved bird species -Bought Hawk Mountain to prevent hunting
Bob Marshall	-Found the Wilderness Society which expands # of acres in the US - Wrote Alaska Wilderness and High Peaks of the Adi.
Aldo Leopold	-Writings influenced the development of environmental ethics -Wrote Game Management and A Sand Country Almanac
Eugene Odum	-Came up with the concept of ecology to study the relationships of nature rather than study discipline in only isolation -Wrote Fundamentals of Ecology and First Ecology Textbook

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