List of environmental contributors

From Environmental Technology

This is a list of persons vital in some way of making a contribution toward the protection of the environment. Some where active in conservation, others where active in creating public awareness.

• Ansel Adams - (1902-1984) - photographer
• Benjamin Franklin - (1706-1790) - fought against water pollution
• John James Audubon - (1785-1851) - painter
• George Perkins March - (1801-1882) - farmer, linguist
• Gifford Pinchot - (1865-1946) - 1st head of US Forest Service
• George Washington Carver - (1865-1943) - renewable bioenergy systems
• Theodore Roosevelt - (1858-1919) - US president
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt - (1882-1945) - US president
• John Muir - (1838-1914) - conservationist, founded Sierra Club
• Aldo Leopold - (1886-1948) - biologist
• Wallace Stegner - (1909-1993) - writer
• Rachel Carson - (1907-1964) - writer
• Paul Ehrlich - (1854-1915) - writer
• Denis Hayes - (1944- ) - founded Earth Day
• Gaylord Nelson - (1916-2005) - senator, founded Earth Day