Influential Persons in Sustainability By: iJacsnJason, Asia, Christy, Stephanie, Nicole

Chief Seattle A chief to the Duwamish people famous for having made a speech that

was generally in favor of being responsible to the environment and to have respect of the land rights of his people

It includes such inspiring lines as: 'Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle Continued…. Video

Theodore Roosevelt Big Game Hunting brought him to the

west In September of 1883 . By the time he got there the large herd

was gone by hunters and disease. Spent some time there and witnessed

virtual destruction of big game species. As a result conservation became one of

Roosevelt’s main concerns.

Theodore Roosevelt Con… When he became president in 1901 : Created US forest services Established 51 federal bird reservations 4 national parks Proclaimed 18 national monuments

( 1906 American Antiquities Act) Protected 230,000,000 acres of public

land

Grifford Pinchot Born in 1865 An American Forester Politician-> 28th governor of

Pennsylvania The first chief of the United States

Forest Service Progressive Party

Grifford Pinchot Con…. is known for changing the treatment of

forests in the United States And for advocating the conservation of the

nation's reserves by planned use & renewal. He called it “the art of producing from the

forest whatever it can yield for the service of man.”

In 1896, the National Academy of Sciences formed the National Forest Commission. 

Rachel Carson An American marine biologist Conservationist Author-> “Silent Spring”  full-time nature writer in the 1950s Aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of

Fisheries

Rachel Carson Her book led to a nationwide ban

on DDT and other pesticides, and it inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

References http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson#Legacy

www.nps.gov/thro/historyculture/theodore-roosevelt-and-conservation.htm

http://www.historynet.com/chief-seattle