Sentences with phrase «early conservation movement»

The importance of Muir Woods in the early conservation movement is best understood by considering those who made the decision to protect the area from destruction.

The intensity of their conversations ultimately fostered the early conservation movement's definitions of wilderness and the differing needs for national parks and national forests.

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In 1900, in the early days of the American conservation movement, ornithologist Frank Chapman organized a Christmas bird census.

Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, launched the conservation movement early in the last century, and, responding to cough - inducing smog and rivers catching on fire, President Richard Nixon signed the landmark Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and established the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.