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[3] [4] The Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge is named for her, [5] and was the first national wildlife refuge named for a woman (the three others are named for Rachel Carson, Elizabeth S. Hartwell, and Julia Butler Hansen). [6] She donated additional land to the Nature Conservancy in 1957, which became part of the Wolf Swamp Reserve ...
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
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.
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.
Aldo Leopold: noted wildlife ecologist and later author of A Sand County Almanac; Robert Sterling Yard: publicist for the National Park Service; Benton MacKaye: the "Father of the Appalachian Trail"; Ernest Oberholtzer: proponent of the Quetico-Superior wilderness area; Harvey Broome: a key player in the creation of Great Smoky Mountains ...
William Temple Hornaday, Sc.D. (December 1, 1854 – March 6, 1937) was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, and author.He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park, known today as the Bronx Zoo, and he was a pioneer in the early wildlife conservation movement in the United States.
[10] [11] During her tenure as director, Clark established 27 new refuges and added two million acres to the National Wildlife Refuge System. [12] While director, the Service worked with Congress to pass the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvements Act of 1997 Archived June 17, 2015, at the Wayback Machine , [ 13 ] establishing wildlife ...
Samuel P. Colt was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on January 10, 1852, the youngest of six children born to Christopher Colt (brother to arms maker Samuel Colt) and Theodora Goujand DeWolf Colt of Bristol, Rhode Island.