Page numbers in italics indicate pictures.
A
Acadia National Park, 54
acid rain (activity), 118
acid rain, described, 116
Adams Nervine Asylum, 48
Agassiz, Louis, 28, 30, 32, 39
Alaska National Interest Lands and Conservation Act, 71, 91
Alcott, Anna, 23
Alcott, Beth, 23
Alcott, Louisa May, 23–24
Aldo Leopold Institute, 72
Allen, Harvey, 79
alligators and crocodiles (activity), 80
alternative energy, 114
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 40
American goldfinch, 109
American Indians, 3–4
American Museum of Natural History, 107
American Ornithology (Wilson & Bonaparte), 17
Antiquities Act, 44
Appalachian Trail, 7
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 89, 91
Arkansas Hot Springs, 4
“Ascent of Mount Rainier” (Muir), 40
Audubon, Anne Moynet, 11–12
Audubon, Jean, 11
Audubon, John James, 11–20
Birds of America, 19
childhood, 11–12
in Kentucky, 18
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 18
Audubon, Lucy Bakewell, 14, 16, 18
Audubon, Rosa, 11
Audubon, Victor Gifford, 18
B
Bachman, John, 20
Bailey, Henry Turner, 47, 51–52
Bakewell, William, 14
Ballinger, Richard, 61
barred owl, 29
Bartram, William, 17
Biltmore Forest Estate, 59
bird-banding, 16
bird feeders (activity), 15, 53
bird habitats, 20
bird identification, 105, 108–109
bird nests (activity), 13
bird observations (activity), 51
Birdsacre (Stanwood home), 52–53
Birds of America (Audubon), 19
blinds, observation, 50
blue heron, 78
Bonaparte, Charles Lucien, 18–19
Boppe, Lucien, 57
Bradford, William, 17
Brandeis, Louis, 90
Brandis, Dietrich, 56
Breaking New Ground (Pinchot), 63
Brooks, Paul, 103
Brooks, Susie, 103
Broward, Napoleon Bonaparte, 77
Brownson, Orestes, 22
Bull Moose Party, 61
Burroughs, Ursula North, 48
C
Caitlin, George, 4
California Desert Protection Act, 71
carbon emissions, 116
Carson, Marian, 97
Carson, Rachel, 95–104
achievements and awards, 95, 103–104
childhood, 95–96
education, 96
pesticide research, 5, 7, 99–101, 103
writings, 5, 7, 95, 97, 99, 100–101, 103–104
Carson, Virginia, 97
Carson National Forest, 68
casting tracks (activity), 31
CBS Reports: The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson (tv program), 103
Chadakoin River, 106
Christian Science Monitor, 79
“Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau), 32, 33
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 64
Civilian Works Administration, 64
cleaning up an oil spill (activity), 94
Clean Water Act, 102
clear-cutting practices, 55, 60, 114–115
climate change, 88, 115–116, 117
Colby, Will, 41
“Colored Towns,” 78
“Commercial Spirit of Modern Times, The” (Thoreau), 23
common loon, 28
composting (activity), 6
Cooper Ornithological Club, 107
crocodiles and alligators (activity), 80
Crow, Frank Fools, 4
Cuvier, Georges, 19
Cuyahoga River fire, 7
D
deforestation, 114–115
Dial, The (magazine), 26
disasters, environmental, 7, 93, 114, 117
D’Orbigny, Charles-Marie, 16
Douglas, Kenneth, 76
Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, 73–82
awards and achievements, 82
black rights, 78
childhood, 73–74
education, 74–75
marriage, 76
move to Florida, 76–77
during World War I, 77–78
Duncan, William, 17
E
Eckstrom, Fannie, 52
ecosystems, 103
Edge of the Sea (Carson), 99
egrets, 52
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 89
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 23, 25, 26, 28–29, 40
Emerson home, 25
energy sources, 113–114
environmentalism, overview, 3–8
environmental issues, overview, 7–8, 113–117
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 7, 102, 103
Erlich, Paul, 111
Everglades: River of Grass, The (Douglas), 79
Exxon Valdez oil spill, 93
F
feathered hats, 52
Fernow, Bernhard, 59
Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, A (Peterson), 111
fires, 7
Florida panther, 81–82
forest management, 57, 60, 115
Forest Reserve Act, 5
Forestry Association, 57
fossil fuels, 113–114
foxes, 29
Franklin, Benjamin, 4
Freedom River (Douglas), 79
Friends of the Everglades, 81
Fukushima nuclear plant, 114
G
“Galley, The” column (Douglas), 78
Game Management (Leopold), 70
Gandhi, Mohandas, 33
garbage strikes, 7
Gila National Forest, 68
Gillette, Louise, 84
Gillette, Louis R., 84
global warming, 88, 115–116, 117
Grand Teton National Park, 86, 87
Graves, Henry S., 61
Great Depression, 64
Greeley, Horace, 26
green heron, 76
greenhouse effect (activity), 9
greenhouse gases, 9, 115. See also global warming
Grinnel, George Bird, 20
H
hares, 29
Harriman, E. H., 41
Harvard University, 22
Havell, Robert, Jr., 19
Hayes, Denis, 100
Hetch Hetchy Valley, 43
Hill, Julia Butterfly, 1–2
Hoover, Herbert, 64
Hornbeck, Blanche, 106
Hunger, Edwin, 67
I
Inconvenient Truth, An (Gore), 117
J
Jackson, Lisa, 102
Jackson Hole National Monument, 86
James, Henry, 26
John Muir Wilderness, 44
Johnson, Cordelia, 46
Johnson, Oliver, 46
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 5, 40, 41
Jordan family, 46
journaling (activity), 24
Junior Audubon Club, 106
K
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 33
Knight, Ora Willis, 50–51
L
Leopold, Aldo, 65–72
childhood, 65–66
education, 67
forestry career, 67–68
illness, 70
teaching career, 70
wildlife management, 68, 70, 72
Leopold, Aldo Starker, 70
Leopold, Carl (father), 65, 66
Leopold, Carl (son), 66
Leopold, Clara Starker, 65
Leopold, Estella Bergere, 68, 70
livestock damage, 40
Luna (tree), 2
M
Maine Woods, The (Thoreau), 28
Mann, Horace, Jr., 32
Marine Biological Laboratory, 96
Marshall, Robert, 87
Martha’s Vineyard, 47
Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute, 47
McCloskey, Pete, 100
McPherson, Simon, 67
Miami, Florida, 78
Miami Herald (newspaper), 77
Mill Grove farm, 14
Mississippi River, 66
Mitchell, Samuel Latham, 16
Mountains of California, The (Muir), 40
Muir, Ann Gilrye, 35
Muir, Grandfather, 35
Muir, John, 35–44
education, 39
inventions, 38
move to America, 36
preservationist movement, 41
sight loss, 39
in Yosemite Valley, 39–40
Muir, Louisa “Louie” Wanda Stentzel, 40, 43
Muir Woods National Monument, 44
Muller, Paul Herman, 100
Murie, Joanne, 85
Murie, Margaret “Mardy” Thomas, 83–93
achievements and awards, 91
Arctic Alaska preservation, 86, 89, 91
childhood, 83–84
education, 84
marriage/family life, 84–85
nervous breakdown, 78–79
pictured, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 91, 93
research work, 84–85
Wilderness Society work, 91
Murie, Martin, 85
Murie, Olaus, 83, 84, 85–86, 89
Murie Center, 91
muskrat, 66
N
National Audubon Society, 5, 20
National Forestry Academy (France), 56–57
national forests, 61
national parks, 4–5, 40, 43–44
National Trails Act, 7
“Natural History of Massachusetts”
(Thoreau), 26
Nature (Emerson), 23
Nelson, Gaylord, 100
nesting behavior, 49
New Deal program, 64
New York Times, on Carson, 99
O
observation of land (activity), 42
oil drilling, 91
oil spill clean up (activity), 94
Olympic National Monument, 86
Ord, George, 17
Ornithological Biography (Audubon), 20
Osgood, Embert, 49
Our National Parks (Muir), 43
owls, 29
P
Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, 7
paper-making (activity), 69
Penn, William, 4
Percy, Carolyn, 76
permafrost, 115
Peterson, Charles Gustav, 105–106
Peterson, Henrietta Bader, 105, 106
Peterson, Lee, 109
Peterson, Roger Tory, 105–111
achievements and awards, 105, 110–111
art shows, 107
childhood, 105–106
education, 107
photography, 106
during World War II, 109
Peterson, Tory, 109
Peterson Identification System (activity), 108–109
Phelps, Dodge and Company, 57, 59
Phillips, Harvey, 53
Pinchot, Amos, 56
Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce, 62
Pinchot, Gifford, 55–72
childhood, 55–56
conservation movement, 5, 55, 61, 63
education, 56–57
forestry career, 57, 59, 61, 62
marriage, 62
Pinchot, Gifford Bryce, 62
Pinchot, James, 55–56
Pinchot, Mary Eno, 55
Pinchot, Nettie, 56
Pine Cone, The (newsletter), 68
plant a tree (activity), 58
“Plea for the Birds, A” (Stanwood), 52
plowing, 38
predators, 85–86
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 82, 110, 111
privateers, 16
Progressive Party, 61–62
Q
Qwatsinas, 4
R
Rabin, Jeanne, 11
Rachel Carson Reserve, 104
rainforests, 115
Reagan, Ronald, 8
recycled paper (activity), 69
red-breasted nuthatch, 50
Red Cross poster, 77
red-tailed hawk, 28
redwood trees, 1–2
Richmond, Chandler, 53
robin, 12
Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, 110
Romance Under the Waters (radio program), 97
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 64
Roosevelt, Theodore, 5, 43, 44, 61–62, 61
Rothchild, John, 82
Rozier, François, 16
Ruckelshaus, William D., 102
S
Salazar, Ken, 71
salt water to drinking water (activity), 98
Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold), 72
scavenger hunt (activity), 62
scones (activity), 37
Scottish oatmeal scones (activity), 37
Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 97, 99
segregation, 78
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 57
Silent Spring (Carson), 5, 95, 100–101, 103, 104
skunks, 67
snowy owl, 88
Society of American, 61
solar energy, 114
Solin, Don, 60
square yard of land (activity), 42
Stanwood, Cordelia “Cordie,” 45–54
bird studies, 47–50
childhood, 45–46
education, 46–47
mental health problems, 48
political activities, 52
professional reputation, 50–51
Stanwood, Grandma, 45–46
Stanwood, Margaret “Maggie” Susan Bown, 45
Stanwood, Roswell Leland, 45, 46
Stoneman, Lilla, 77
Stoneman, Lillian Trefethen, 73, 74, 75, 76
summer tanager, 19
T
Taft, William Howard, 61
taxidermy, 16
Teale, Edward Way, 100
Thomas, Ashton, 83
Thomas, Minnie, 83
Thomas, William, 14
Thoreau, Cynthia Dunbar, 21
Thoreau, Helen, 21
Thoreau, Henry David, 21–34
childhood, 21
education, 22–23
lectures on nature, 32
in New York, 26
political views of, 32
spiritual beliefs, 22–23
at Walden Pond, 26–29
Thoreau, John, Jr., 21, 23, 25
Thoreau, John, Sr., 21
Thoreau, Sophia, 21
Three Mile Island meltdown, 8
tracks, animal (activity), 31
Transcendentalism, 22–23
tree planting (activity), 58
tree-sitting, 1–2
tuberculosis, 32
tundra, 88
tundra diorama (activity), 92
Two in the Far North (Murie), 91
U
“Undersea” (Carson), 97
Under the Sea Wind (Carson), 97
Union Carbide, 102
University of Alaska, 84
University of Wisconsin, 71
US Department of the Interior, 4–5
US Forest Products Laboratory, 68, 70
V
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 59
Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Audubon & Bachman), 20
Vogt, Bill, 107
von Langereis, William, 107
W
Wagner, Curley Bear, 4
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A (Thoreau), 28, 30
Wellesley College, 74–75
Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, 103
Westervelt, Mimi, 110
White-Stevens, Robert, 100
Whitman, Walt, 48
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, 7
wilderness area designation, 68
Wilderness Society, 71, 72, 86, 91
wind energy, 114
Winter Woman, 4
Wisconsin River, 72
Wisconsin State Fair, 38
“World of Water, The” (Carson), 97
World’s Columbian Exhibition, 59
Y
Yale School of Forestry, 67
Yale University, 56
Yosemite National Park, 40, 43, 44
Yosemite Valley, 39–40, 43, 44
