Rachel Carson
The name of the book that Carson is most well known for.
What is Silent Spring?
What are vigorous sports?
Muir loved nature and would do this.
What is retreat into the wilderness for long periods of time?
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane abbreviation
What is DDT?
The year Muir walked from Indiana to Florida.
What is 1867?
One of the subjects that Carson studied in college.
What is biology, marine biology, or zoology?
When president, Roosevelt used his position to set aside this.
What is 230 million acres of protected federal land?
Muir worked and loved here for several years starting in 1869.
What is the Yosemite Valley?
NPS meaning
What is the National Park Service?
What year the Badlands National Park was established?
What is 1978?
Carson felt that she could best share her vision for the natural world through this.
What is her writing?
Why the "badlands" got its name.
Muir spent three days camping with this person and ultimately convinced them to incorporate Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove into Yosemite National Park.
Who is President Roosevelt?
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
The year was Silent Spring published.
What is 1962?
In Silent Springs Carson discusses the effects of this insecticide and how the chemicals are toxic to the natural environment and people.
What is DDT?
Besides being president Roosevelt was known as this.
What is the champion of conservation.
This is a group that works tirelessly to have the ecosystems set aside as national parks and national forests.
What is the Sierra Club?
To prevent the wasteful or harmful use of.
What is conserve?
What year was the American Antiquities Act signed?
What is 1906?
Silent Spring was considered a brave act and because of her this was passed.
What are laws to ban or control the use of dangerous pesticides?
The American Antiquities Act ensured this.
In what book did Muir write about the importance of getting out into nature?
What is Our National Parks?
A expert in or student of natural history.
What is a naturalist?
The year the Sierra Club was founded.
What is 1892?