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Julia Hill was born in February 18th in 1974. She is known as an Environmental Activist. She also advocated for tax redirection.

Starting in December of 1977, she decided to live in a 1500 year old redwood tree named Luna. She did this in order to stop the removal of the tree because it was so ancient and an endangered species. After about 2 years of living in Luna, Julia descended once the Pacific Lumber Company agreed to leave the tree standing and everything within 200 feet of it. She claims that she is "accidentally famous" because she was expecting to stay on the tree from a maximum of 4 weeks. After this experience, she has continued to be an environmental advocate. She has spent time in several Latin American countries to spread the word.

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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. In addition to this, he was also a lawyer, military officer, and author.

In 1970, he created the Environmental Protection Agency. This served to combine many other agencies with similar goals that were present at the time. The primary focus of this agency was addressing concerns regarding pollutants in the air, surface water, groundwater, and solid waste disposal. Nowadays, the EPA spends it’s resources in research, studying our impact on the environment and how best to reduce it. They also study the events of climate change, and how our actions can invoke severe weather. The rest of the 1970s became known as the “Environmental Decade.” He set up many more laws and policies throughout this time: the Clean Air Act Extension (1970) enforced regulations on harmful chemicals in the air, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972) regulated the commercial and trade use of marine animals, and The Safe Drinking Water Act (1974) protected the bodies of water filtered for consumption. Through these various policies and regulations, the government and private industries were able to decrease the number of harmful chemicals and emissions. By regulating the manufacturing, processing, distribution, and use of chemicals and harmful  substances, the larger corporations and citizens are more aware of the individual impacts they have on the environment, as well as long term consequences that may stem from their use.

Nixon brought global diplomatic attention to environmental issues using his presidential powers, and also promoted legislation in Congress to create a permanent structure for these legislations. By bringing light to these issues, Nixon reinforced them in the minds of American citizens and gathered global attention as well.

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Theodore Roosevelt, born October 27, 1858. was a American Statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer. Roosevelt served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was a major impact to the American environment  by setting aside more federal land for national parks and nature preserves. He established the United States Forest Service.   Roosevelt wanted to protect the United States wildlife and Natural habitiat by crating laws and organizations that protected Land, National Parks and nature preserves.

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Paul Watson, born December 2nd, 1950, was a Canadian-American marine wildlife conservation and wildlife activist. He is known as a renegade of the conservation movement because he fought an international water war to put an end to poaching.

In 1971, he joined an environmental advocacy group (known as Greenpeace) to protest American nuclear testing in Alaska. Due to his aggressive and sometimes violent approaches to protect marine life, he was ousted from the organization and accused of being a terrorist. Watson developed a doctrine of direct action:  a declaration of war against illegal poaching or exploitation.

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Anne Gorsuch Burford (April 21, 1942 – July 18, 2004) Was an American attorney and politician. Between 1981 and 1983, she served under President Ronald Reagan as the first female Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

But her short, tumultuous tenure was marked by sharp budget cuts, rifts with career EPA employees, a steep decline in cases filed against polluters and a scandal over the mismanagement of the Superfund cleanup program that ultimately led to her resignation in 1983.

During her 22 months as agency head, she cut the budget of the EPA by 22%, reduced the number of cases filed against polluters, relaxed Clean Air Act regulations, and facilitated the spraying of restricted-use pesticides.

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Garrett Hardin was born on April 21, 1915. Hardin was an American Ecologist best known for his writing of "The Tragedy of the Commons" written in 1968, which was his way of bringing to light the fact that in shared-resource systems, individuals act only on their own self-interests and use as they need not taking others into consideration. Along with his focus on "The Tragedy of the Commons" He also majorly focused on human overpopulation. Hardin wrote about overpopulation and with that came controversial subjects such as abortion rights and strict immigration limits. However, "The Tragedy of the Commons" is what he is know for. Hardin wanted us to understand the affect our actions have on the environment especially in shared social spaces and how we should care for them.

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Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States of America from 1993 to 2001. He was born on August 19, 1946 in Hope, AR. He was part of the Democratic party. During his 1st presidency term he signed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. He made many Family and Abortion statements of how it should be handled. He also demonstrated his vision of economic plans and a health care reform. He also signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act in 1993, which raised taxes and set the stage for future budget surpluses. He also won ratification of the NAFTA which was a trade pack that allowed free trade. He also signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. He filed to pass his plan for national health care reform.

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George H.W. Bush Sr was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts.

Bush was an American politician, diplomat, and businessman. Bush served as the 41st U.S. president, and was known as the “Environmental President”. Bush supported beneficial environmental policies during his presidency. Bush passed the Energy Policy Act of 1992. This act provided incentives for using renewable and alternative energies, including ethanol, hydrogen, electricity, and bio-diesel. Bush also made amendments that strengthened the Clean Air Act in June 1989. Additionally, Bush created 15 National Wildlife Refuges and emphasized recovery for species such as bald eagles and the Yellowstone grizzly under the Endangered Species Act.

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Sister Dorothy Stang
Dorothy was born in Dayton, Ohio on June 7th, 1931. She entered the “Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur community” in 1948 and took her vows in 1956. She was eventually sent to Brazil as a missionary in 1966. Here she started to work alongside the poor and dispossessed, and eventually started working for the CPT, the Roman Catholic church’s Pastoral Land commission, in 1982. She spent her time with the CPT teaching the poor farmers of Anapu, who were unfamiliar with amazon soils, sustainable farming methods. She was also fighting to protect these farmers and the rainforest from ranchers and loggers who sought to illegally exploit the forest and its land despite knowing the dangers that came with it. Her death came on February 14th, 2005 when she was assassinated at the age of 74 years old. Her assassination resulted many high level actions such as the creation of a huge Amazon evironmental protection area spanning 8.2 million acres  and a national park spanning 1.1 million acres in the state of Para, where she was assassinated.

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Dorothy was born in Dayton, Ohio on June 7th, 1931. She entered the “Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur community” in 1948 and took her vows in 1956. She was eventually sent to Brazil as a missionary in 1966. Here she started to work alongside the poor and dispossessed, and eventually started working for the CPT, the Roman Catholic church’s Pastoral Land commission, in 1982. She spent her time with the CPT teaching the poor farmers of Anapu, who were unfamiliar with amazon soils, sustainable farming methods. She was also fighting to protect these farmers and the rainforest from ranchers and loggers who sought to illegally exploit the forest and its land despite knowing the dangers that came with it. Her death came on February 14th, 2005 when she was assassinated at the age of 74 years old. Her assassination resulted many high level actions such as the creation of a huge Amazon environmental protection area spanning 8.2 million acres  and a national park spanning 1.1 million acres in the state of Para, where she was assassinated.

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas was born on April 7, 1890 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Douglas was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist. Her book written in 1947, The Everglades: River of Grass, raised America's consciousness and transformed the Florida Everglades from a swamp that was to be drained and developed commercially to a national park, which is seen as a valuable resource that needs to be protected and preserved. She later founded the Friends of the Everglades, which is a conservation organization that is still active today. Douglas graduated from Wellesley College as an English major in 1912; she then went to work as a reporter for her father's newspaper in Miami. Her editorials focused on what she saw as Florida's increasing problem of rapid commercial development. Douglas also engaged in numerous other campaigns and charity work to improve society, such as campaigns against slum-lords and for improved housing conditions as well as free milk for babies whose parents needed aid and the ratification of the Women's Suffrage Amendment. Her most important contribution to the environment was her dedication to preserving and restoring the Everglades, which ultimately led to Florida voters passing a constitutional amendment that held polluters primarily responsible for cleaning up the Everglades in 1996. Because of her contribution, the Florida state and federal governments have authorized multi-million dollar projects to restore and expand the Everglades. Douglas' books and active campaigning brought a lot of attention to the environmental issues in Florida from commercial development, which has led to better management of resources, such as the Everglades.

https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/marjory-stoneman-douglas/

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Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817. Thoreau exceeded through schooling early on and graduated from Harvard in 1837. He secured a teaching job at his old grammar school.  He soon resigned two weeks later and chose to work for his father making pencils. A year later, Henry and his brother opened up their own school but closed a few years later after his brother became ill.

Thoreau started off keeping up a journal, then he published college essays and even wrote new ones. After a camping trip with his brother, they both agreed Henry Thoreau shouldn’t be a school teacher but a “poet of nature.” In the 1840’s, he had many poems published in the transcendentalist magazine, ‘The Dial’. He continued to write his poems about nature and also did a few book reviews on nature. After the death of his brother, his condition worsened and so he became a tutor for his friend’s brother in Staten Island. Henry Thoreau tried to get the attention of the New York market but he failed and moved back home to Concord.

Thoreau took up the idea from a former Harvard peer and built a house on a lake two miles south of Concord. He restricted his diet to plant-based and found himself fully involved in nature; gardening, fishing, swimming, rowing, and observing became his new hobbies. He published Walden: Life in the Woods which consisted of eighteen essays describing his basic living and leisure time. The summer of 1847, Thoreau moved back up to live with his friend, Emerson, but found himself in jail for not paying taxes. He was bailed out and decided he did not support a government who allowed slavery so he waged an imperialist war against Mexico. He wrote ‘Civil Disobedience’ but was listed under a different name; this wasn’t a popular essay until the 20th century during the American civil rights movement.

After he left Walden, his life went downhill. Thoreau collected botanical and reptilian specimens for himself and Harvard and continued journaling. After his father’s death he completely took control of the family business. He continued to publish essays in magazines and became an active abolitionist.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau/Move-to-Walden-Pond

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Archie Carr was born on June 16, 1909 and was a naturalist (an expert in or student of natural history), conservationist (a person who advocates or acts for the protection and preservation of the environment and wildlife), herpetologist ( the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians and reptiles), and a professor of zoology at University of Florida. Through his 11 books and over 120 scientific articles, Carr brought attention to the decreasing population of turtles due to the loss of habitat and overexploitation. In 1995 he started a research station in Tortuguero, Costa Rica that eventually became the Tortuguero National Park, famous for being a protected habitat for sea turtles. After that, in 1956, he wrote The Windward Road which focused on his journey in the Carribean trying to find turtle nesting beaches. This inspired the founding of the Carribean Conservation Corporation who has made it their mission to study and protect sea turtles. One of Carr’s most significant contributions was in the 1960’s when he started “Operation Green Turtle” with the US Navy to focus on spreading turtle eggs to nesting locations across beaches in the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico in order to combat against the dwindling turtle population. 

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John James Audubon was born on April 26th, 1785, in Les Cayes, Saint Domingue, Haiti. He was an American ornithologist, naturalist and artist known for studies and detailed illustrations of North American Birds. John Jay Audubon conducted his first study from his father’s Pennsylvania estate. He failed trying to create several businesses and decided to concentrate on drawing and studying birds and began to travel around the country for his work. He wrote his first book, Birds of America, which included over 400 plates of his drawings and was printed and serialized in 1838. Audubon traveled back and forth between the United States and Europe and sold his books to King George IV and The U.S. President, Andrew Jackson. In 1841, Audubon moved his family to a large rural estate on the Hudson River in upper Manhattan, where he began to work on a more detailed version of Birds of America. John Jay Audubon died in his home on January 27, 1851 and buried at Trinity Cemetery in New York City. A lot of wildlife sanctuaries, parks, streets and towns bear his name and honor his legacy.

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Jimmy Carter was born on October 1st in 1924. He was an American politician, philanthropist, and farmer who also served as the 39th president of The United States. Carter had a huge impact on the environment. He enacted legislation and created programs that helped to improve the environment, reduce pollution and to protect Americans from contaminated land and water. He successfully de-authorized 16 water-reclamation projects in an effort to restore natural water flow and keep rivers as they should be- wild. He impacted the environment all throughout his presidency which was from 1977 to 1981. All these impacts are significant because he helped keep water clean all around people, which is extremely important. Not only was he a good president but he was also a good person who cared for the environment and people around him.

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Jane Goodall was born on April 3rd, 1934 in London. In July 1960, she travel to Tanzania to begin her studies on wild chimpanzees. She has worked extensively for the past sixty years studying how to restore the natural habitats of chimpanzees, while still allowing nearby villages to produce what they need to survive. In 1965, Goodall's work was brought into the international spotlight through a documentary by National Geographic. The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) was founded in 1977 to expand her ability to protect and observe chimpanzees. In 1991, a sanctuary for chimpanzees was founded to care for injured chimpanzees, before their release into the wild. The JGI created a conservation action plan in 2005 to let the local communities begin to protect their local ecosystems while improving the lives of nearby people. At the age of 86, Jane Goodall continues her work today, traveling the globe to advocate for the protection of species habitats.

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David Brower was born in California on July 1st, 1912. He was the founder of many environmental organizations like Friends of Earth, Earth Island Institute, and first executive director of the Sierra club.

Brower successfully fought to stop dams in Dinosaur National Monument and Grand Canyon National Park.

He led campaigns to establish 10 new national parks and seashores, including Point Reyes, the North Cascades, and the Redwoods.

He was instrumental in gaining passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, which protects millions of acres of public lands.

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The person I got was John Muir aka "Father of the National Parks", he was born on April 21st, 1838. He was the most famous and influential naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist and an advocate of the preservation of wilderness for the US. As early as 1876 Muir urged federal government to adopt a forest conservation policy. Him and his writing are a major reason for the creation of many national parks such as Yosemite, Grand Canyon, King Canyon and many more .On may 28th, 1892 he founded the Sierra Club and was the clubs first president until his death in 1914.