Nature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World

273 Pages·2017·13.81 MB·English

by  Larry Nielsen

N A T U R E ’ S
A L L I E S
Eight Conservationists Who
Changed Our World
Foreword by CURT MEINE
L A R R Y A . N I E L S E N
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Nature’s Allies

Nature’s Allies
Eight Conservationists
Who Changed Our World
Larry A. Nielsen
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Keywords: Island Press, John Muir, Yosemite National Park, Robert Underwood
Johnson, Sierra Club, Hetch Hetchy, Ding Darling, Duck Stamp, National
Wildlife Refuge System, John Salyer, US Biological Survey, National Wildlife
Federation, Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac, The Shack, Game
Management, Thinking Like a Mountain, Rachel Carson, Under the Sea Wind,
The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea, Silent Spring, DDT, Chico Mendes,
Extractive reserves, Brazilian rainforest, Rubber-tapping, Deforestation, Billy
Frank Jr., Judge Hugo Boldt, Hank Adams, Nisqually Tribe, Treaty of 1854,
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Wangari Maathai, Green Belt
Movement, Uhuru Park, Nobel Peace Prize, Gro Harlem Brundtland, World
Commission on Environment and Development, World Health Organization,
Sustainability definition.
To the memory of Joe Florini, as true a conservationist
as those whose stories appear here

Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1
Chapter 1: John Muir: Earth-Planet, Universe 13
Chapter 2: Ding Darling: The Best Friend a Duck Ever Had 39
Chapter 3: Aldo Leopold: A Very Large & Important Sumpin 65
Chapter 4: Rachel Carson: The Lady Who Started All This 95
Chapter 5: Chico Mendes: Gandhi of the Amazon 121
Chapter 6: Billy Frank Jr.: The Getting-Arrested Guy 147
Chapter 7: Wangari Maathai: The Green Crusader 171
Chapter 8: Gro Harlem Brundtland: Godmother of
Sustainable Development 197

Notes 223
About the Author 245
Index 247