Early Conservationists Review

John Muir visited Alaska in 1879 and made an interesting discovery. This discovery was eventually named after him.

What was this discovery?

• a glacier

• a mountain

• a river

• a village

What are John Muir and Robert U. Johnson credited for establishing?

• national parks

• a bird sanctuary

• national weather service

• alternative energy research

What is the name of the environmental group that Bob Marshall founded? This group has been credited with saving millions of acres of land.

• Greenpeace

• Forty-Sixers Club

• Wilderness Society

• United States Forestry Service

Rosalie Edge was famous for being an advocate of what issue?

• racial integration in schools

• women's suffrage

• freedom of speech

• religious freedom

Rosalie Edge founded an animal sanctuary in eastern Pennsylvania.

What type of animal is the focus of the sanctuary?

• amphibians

• birds

• fish

• reptiles

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Their journals and books became the basis for game management in the United States

• John Muir

• Aldo Leopold

• Bob Marshall

• Rachel Carson

Responsible to bringing awareness to the negative effects DDT was having on wildlife, including how it was effecting bald eagles

• John Muir

• Aldo Leopold

• Bob Marshall

• Rachel Carson

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Inspired the forty-sixers club

• John Muir

• Aldo Leopold

• Bob Marshall

• Rachel Carson

Credited with helping establish Olympic National Park

• John Muir

• Aldo Leopold

• Rosalie Edge

• Rachel Carson

Devoted his life to conservation after he regained his sight from being temporarily blinded in an accident

• John Muir

• Aldo Leopold

• Rosalie Edge

• Rachel Carson