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Peter Scott – (1909–1989) founder of the World Wildlife Fund and Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and the first conservationist to be knighted (in 1973) Charles Alexander Sheldon – the "Father of Denali National Park" Willie Smits – working, with Borneo Orangutan Survival for conservation of Bornean orangutans and orangutan habitat
Half Dome by Gunnar Widfoss(1922) The national park idea has been credited to the artist George Catlin.In 1832 he traveled the northern Great Plains of the United States, where he became concerned about the destruction of the Indian civilization, wildlife, and wilderness as eastern settlements spread westward.
Founded in 1919 as the National Parks Association, the organization was designed to be a citizen's watchdog for the National Park Service (NPS) created in 1916. Among the founders of NPA was Stephen Mather, the first director of the National Park Service. Robert Sterling Yard was NPA's first employee. Although Yard received personal financial ...
Tour through Bronx Zoo, 1950. The Wildlife Conservation Society was originally chartered by the government of the State of New York, on April 26, 1895. [6] [7]: 52 Then known as the New York Zoölogical Society, [6] the organization embraced a mandate to advance native wildlife conservation, promote the study of zoology, and create a first-class zoological park that would be free to the public ...
In 1872, Yellowstone National Park was established, primarily to protect the area's hot springs and geysers, but again, the "wanton destruction" of wildlife was forbidden. Establishment as a national park did not, however, produce the desired wildlife protection effect until passage of the Yellowstone Park Protection Act of 1894.
America had its own conservation movement in the 19th century, most often characterized by George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature.The expedition into northwest Wyoming in 1871 led by F. V. Hayden and accompanied by photographer William Henry Jackson provided the imagery needed to substantiate rumors about the grandeur of the Yellowstone region, and resulted in the creation of ...
The J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in southwest Florida is named after him, as is the Lake Darling State Park in Iowa that was dedicated on September 17, 1950. Lake Darling, a 9,600-acre lake at the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge is also named in his honor. [9]
Casey Anderson was born and raised in East Helena, Montana.He is a fifth-generation Montanan and was interested in animals from an early age. [2] [3] He attended Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, in 1995 and studied wildlife biology.