List of conservationists

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This is a list of people who have been prominent conservationists:

• Edward Abbey - writer and wilderness activist
• Ansel Adams - wilderness and landscape photographer
• Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer of polar regions
• Frances Beinecke - President of the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Daniel Boone - famous wilderness explorer
• Barbara Boxer - U.S. Senator from the State of California; vocal advocate for environmental issues
• Harvey Broome - wilderness activist
• David Brower - mid-20th century leader of the Sierra Club
• Tom Brown–naturalist
• Ernest Callenbach–environmental writer
• Maria Cantwell - United States Senator from Washington; great environmental senator who was instrumental in the effort to block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska
• Arthur Carhart - U.S. Forest Service official who inspired wilderness protection in the United States
• Rachel Carson - scientist who advanced the global environmental movement
• Jimmy Carter - helped protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Jessica Hobby Catto - environmentalist, conservationist, political columnist,who founded the annual American Land Conservation Award and with her husband, Henry E. Catto, founded the Fellowship for a Sustainable Future through the Aspen Institute
• Frank Church - great environmental U.S. Senator; Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, the largest wilderness area in the contiguous 48 states, is named after him
• Frederic Edwin Church - American landscape painter, famous for Twilight in the Wilderness
• Bill Clinton - signed the Roadless area conservation rule just before he left office
• Christopher Columbus - explorer who reached the Western Hemisphere in 1492, when North America was a wilderness from the Atlantic to the Pacific
• Leonardo DiCaprio - environmentalist and Natural Resources Defense Council trustee
• William O. Douglas - U.S. Supreme Court Justice who was an ardent conservationist
• Dwight D. Eisenhower - the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge became a federally protected wilderness area during his administration
• Bernard Frank (wilderness activist) - one of the founders of The Wilderness Society
• George Bird Grinnell - prominent early American conservationist
• Denis Hayes - leading environmental activist
• Hubert Humphrey - U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1956 who presented the first draft of the Federal Wilderness Preservation System Bill to Congress
• Celia Hunter - former president of The Wilderness Society
• Steve Irwin - Australian zookeeper, documentary film maker and activist
• Lyndon Baines Johnson - signed the Wilderness Act on September 3, 1964, which permanently guaranteed millions of acres of wild land for future generations of Americans
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - environmental lawyer, Natural Resources Defense Council Senior Attorney
• Aldo Leopold – ecologist, forester and environmentalist; author of A Sand County Almanac
• A. Starker Leopold - son of Aldo Leopold, zoologist and ecologist, writer of the Leopold Report
• Lewis and Clark - famous wilderness expedition
• Benton MacKaye - wilderness activist, founder of the Appalachian Trail
• Bob Marshall (wilderness activist) - principal founder of The Wilderness Society (United States)
• Louis B. Marshall - constitutional lawyer who was instrumental in passing "forever wild" legislation of N.Y.S. Constitution, which permantly protected wilderness in Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves
• Bill Mason - wilderness author and canoeist
• William H. Meadows - current president of The Wilderness Society
• John Muir - author and preservationist, founder of the Sierra Club
• Margaret Murie - "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement"
• Olaus Murie - wilderness activist
• Roderick Nash - author of "Wilderness and the American Mind"
• Gaylord Nelson - principal founder of Earth Day
• Barack Obama - signed into law the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
• Ernest Oberholtzer - one of the eight founders of The Wilderness Society
• Sigurd F. Olson–author and environmentalist
• Gifford Pinchot - conservationist, first Chief of the United States Forest Service
• Ian Player–international conservationist
• Carl Pope - executive director of the Sierra Club
• Robert Redford - environmental activist, principal spokesperson for the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Theodore Roosevelt - set aside 194,000,000 acres (790,000 km²) of federal land for national parks and nature preserves. He was also instrumental in establishing the United States Forest Service.
• John P. Saylor - Republican member of U.S. House of Representatives who was dedicated to a number of environmental causes, including the Wilderness Act
• William H. Seward -United States Secretary of State who acquired Alaska from Russia for 2 cents per acre. Seward's Folly is the largest remaining wilderness in North America
• Gary Snyder–poet and environmentalist
• Kieran Suckling–co-founder of the Center for Biological Diversity
• David Suzuki–science broadcaster and environmentalist
• Henry David Thoreau–author, naturalist and development critic
• Stewart Udall - United States Secretary of the Interior when the Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964
• Robert Sterling Yard - a founding member of The Wilderness Society
• Howard Zahniser - leader of The Wilderness Society, drafted the Wilderness Act
• Stephen T. Mather - Founder of the National Park Service