A comprehensive and diverse, award-winning collection of biographies of the most important figures in American environmentalism. As our environment changes, and environmental concerns become more and more prevalent, this encyclopedia provides much-needed information on the key players in the environmental movement.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction
• A
• Abbey, Edward
• Ackerman, Diane
• Adams, Ansel
• Adams, Henry
• Adams, John Hamilton
• Adams, John Quincy
• Addams, Jane
• Albright, Horace
• Alston, Dana
• Amidon, Elias, and Elizabeth Roberts
• Anderson, Adrienne
• Anderson, Ray
• Andrus, Cecil
• Anthony, Carl
• Audubon, John James
• Austin, Mary
• Ausubel, Kenny
• Ayres, Richard
• B
• Babbitt, Bruce
• Bahouth, Peter
• Bailey, Florence Augusta Merriam
• Ball, Betty, and Gary Ball
• Balog, James D.
• Bari, Judi
• Bartlett, Albert
• Bartram, John, and William Bartram
• Bates, Marston
• Bauer, Catherine
• Bavaria, Joan
• Bean, Michael J.
• Beattie, Mollie
• Beebe, C. William
• Begley, Ed Jr.
• Bennett, Hugh Hammond
• Benyus, Janine
• Berenbaum, May Roberta
• Berg, Peter
• Berle, Peter
• Berry, Friar Thomas
• Berry, Wendell
• Bertell, Rosalie
• Bien, Amos
• Bierstadt, Albert
• Bingham, Eula
• Bixby, Kevin
• Blackgoat, Roberta
• Blaeloch, Janine
• Bloomberg, Michael
• Bookchin, Murray
• Boulding, Kenneth
• Bramble, Barbara
• Brand, Stewart
• Brandborg, Stewart
• Bresette, Walt
• Brockovich, Erin
• Brower, David
• Brown, Janet
• Brown, Lester
• Brown, Michael H.
• Browner, Carol
• Brune, Michael
• Bullard, Robert D.
• Burroughs, John
• Butcher, Devereux
• C
• Cade, Thomas
• Caldwell, Lynton
• Callicott, J. Baird
• Carhart, Arthur
• Carlton, Jasper
• Carr, Archie
• Carr, Marjorie Harris
• Carson, Rachel
• Carter, Jimmy
• Carver, George Washington
• Castillo, Aurora
• Catlin, George
• Caudill, Harry
• Chafee, John
• Chapman, Frank
• Chappell, Kate, and Tom Chappell
• Chase, Robin
• Chávez, César
• Chavis, Benjamin F. Jr.
• Chief Sealth (Seattle)
• Christy, Elizabeth
• Cizik, Richard
• Clawson, Marion
• Cobb, John B., Jr.
• Colborn, Theo
• Colby, William
• Cole, Thomas
• Collom, Jack
• Commoner, Barry
• Connett, Ellen, and Paul Connett
• Cook, Richard A.
• Cooper, James Fenimore
• Costle, Douglas
• Cowles, Henry
• Cox, Paul
• Craighead, Frank, and John Craighead
• Cronon, William
• D
• Daly, Herman
• Darling, Jay Norwood “Ding”
• David, Laurie Ellen
• Dawson, Richard
• DeBonis, Jeff
• DeFalco, Tony
• Desser, Christina Louise
• Devall, Bill
• Devoto, Bernard
• DiCaprio, Leonardo
• Dilg, Will
• Dillard, Annie
• Dingell, John, Jr.
• Dittmar, Hank
• Dombeck, Michael
• Donovan, Richard
• Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
• Douglas, William Orville
• Dowie, Mark
• Downing, Andrew Jackson
• Drayton, William
• Drury, Newton
• Dubos, René
• Dunlap, Louise
• Durning, Alan
• Dutcher, William
• Dyer, Polly
• E
• Earle, Sylvia
• Ebi, Kristie
• Edge, Rosalie
• Ehrenfeld, David
• Ehrlich, Anne, and Paul Ehrlich
• Eisner, Thomas
• Elton, Charles S.
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• F>
• Fontenot, Willie
• Foreman, Dave
• Fossey, Dian
• Franklin, Jerry
• Frome, Michael
• Fuller, Buckminster
• Fuller, Kathryn
• Futrell, J. William
• G
• Gagliano, Sherwood M.
• Geisel, Theodor (Dr. Seuss)
• Gelbspan, Ross
• Gibbs, Lois
• Gleason, Henry Allan
• Gold, Lou
• Golten, Robert
• Goodman, Paul
• Gore, Albert Jr.
• Gottlieb, Robert
• Gould, Stephen Jay
• Gray, Asa
• Grinnell, George Bird
• Grogan, Pete
• Grossman, Richard L.
• Gussow, Joan Dye
• Guthrie, Woody
• Gutiérrez, Juana Beatriz
• H
• Hair, Jay
• Hamilton, Alice
• Hansen, James E.
• Hardin, Garrett
• Harper, Fletcher
• Harry, Debra
• Harvey, Dorothy Webster
• Hawken, Paul
• Hayes, Denis
• Hayes, Randy
• Hays, Samuel P.
• Henderson, Hazel
• Hermach, Tim
• Hill, Julia Butterfly
• Hoagland, Edward
• Hornaday, William Temple
• House, Donna
• Huerta, Dolores
• Huta, Leda Gawdiak
• I
• Ickes, Harold
• Ingram, Helen
• J
• Jackson, Henry
• Jackson, Wes
• Jacobs, Jane
• Jacobson, Michael
• Janzen, Daniel H.
• Jensen, Derrick
• Johnson, Glenn S.
• Johnson, Hazel
• Johnson, Lady Bird (Claudia Alta)
• Johnson, Robert Underwood
• Jones, Van
• Jontz, Jim
• Jordan, Chris
• Jukofsky, Diane
• K
• Kamp, Dick
• Kane, Hal
• Katz, Daniel
• Kaufman, Hugh
• Kellert, Stephen
• Kendall, Henry
• Kennedy, Robert F. Jr.
• Kingsolver, Barbara
• Klein, Naomi
• Kratt, Chris, and Martin Kratt
• Krupp, Fred
• L
• LaBudde, Samuel
• LaDuke, Winona
• Lammers, Owen
• Lappé, Frances Moore
• Leopold, Aldo
• Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, and Charles Augustus Lindbergh
• Linzey, Thomas
• Lopez, Barry
• Louv, Richard
• Lovejoy, Thomas
• Lovins, Amory
• Lovins, L. Hunter
• Luce, Benjamin
• Lyons, Oren
• M
• MacKaye, Benton
• Macy, Joanna
• Mader, Ron
• Mander, Jerry
• Mann, Michael E.
• Manning, Richard
• Marsh, George Perkins
• Marshall, Robert
• Martínez, Dennis
• Martinez, Xiuhtezcatl
• Massol-González, Alexis
• Marston, Besty, and Ed Marston
• Mather, Stephen
• Matthiessen, Peter
• McCloskey, Michael
• McDonough, William
• McDowell, Mary
• McHarg, Ian
• McKibben, Bill
• McPhee, John
• Meadows, Donella
• Meany, Edmund
• Merchant, Carolyn
• Merculieff, Ilarion (Larry)
• Mills, Enos
• Mills, Stephanie
• Mitchell, George J.
• Mittermeier, Russell
• Montague, Peter
• Moses, Marion
• Moss, Cynthia
• Moss, Doug
• Muir, John
• Mumford, Lewis
• Murie, Mardy, and Olaus Murie
• Muskie, Edmund
• N
• Nabhan, Gary
• Nader, Ralph
• Nagel, Carlos
• Nash, Roderick
• Nearing, Helen, and Scott Nearing
• Needleman, Herbert
• Neill, Peter
• Nelson, Gaylord
• Nelson, Willie
• Newman, Nell
• Norton, Bryan
• Noss, Reed
• O
• Odum, Eugene
• Oliver, Mary
• Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.
• Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr.
• Olson, Sigurd
• Orr, David
• Osborn, Fairfield
• Owings, Margaret
• P
• Packard, Steve
• Palmer, Paula
• Parkman, Francis
• Peacock, Doug
• Perkins, Jane
• Peterson, Roger Tory
• Peterson, Russell
• Pinchot, Gifford
• Plotkin, Mark
• Pollan, Michael
• Popper, Deborah, and Frank Popper
• Postel, Sandra
• Pough, Richard
• Powell, John Wesley
• Pritchard, Paul C.
• Pryor, Cynthia
• Pulido, Laura
• R
• Raven, Peter
• Red Cloud, Henry
• Reilly, William K.
• Reisner, Marc
• Reynolds, Michael
• Richards, Ellen Swallow
• Rifkin, Jeremy
• Ringo, Jerome C.
• Ritter, Bill, Jr.
• Robbins, John
• Robin, Vicky
• Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
• Rockefeller, Laurance
• Rodale, Robert
• Rolfes, Anne
• Rolston, III, Holmes
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Rosenfeld, Arthur H.
• Roszak, Theodore
• Ruether, Rosemary Radford
• S
• Safina, Carl
• Sagan, Carl
• Sale, Kirkpatrick
• Sandoval, Arturo
• Sanjour, William
• Sargent, Charles Sprague
• Saunders, Marshall
• Sawhill, John
• Schlickeisen, Rodger
• Schneider, Stephen
• Schultes, Richard Evans
• Schurz, Carl
• Schwarzenegger, Arnold
• Seeger, Pete
• Selikoff, Irving
• Seo, Danny
• Sessions, George
• Seton, Ernest Thompson
• Shabecoff, Philip
• Shapiro, Andrew L.
• Shuey, Chris
• Silkwood, Karen
• Sive, David
• Smith, Rocky
• Sneed, Cathrine
• Snyder, Gary
• Soleri, Paolo
• Solomon, Susan
• Soulé, Michael
• Speth, James Gustave
• Standing Bear, Chief Luther
• Steel, William
• Steffen, Alex
• Stegner, Wallace
• Steingraber, Sandra
• Stone, Christopher
• Stone-Manning, Tracy
• Subra, Wilma
• Suckling, Kierán
• Susanka, Sarah
• Swearingen, Terri
• T
• Tall, JoAnn
• Tamminen, Terry
• Tchozewski, D. Chet
• Tewa, Debby
• Thompson, Chief Tommy Kuni
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Thorne, Oakleigh, II
• Thorpe, Grace
• Tidwell, Michael
• Tilsen, Nick
• Tokar, Brian
• Tompkins, Douglas
• Toor, Will
• Turner, Frederick Jackson
• Turner, Ted
• U
• Udall, Morris
• Udall, Stewart
• V
• Vogt, William
• W
• Walter, Martin
• Warburton, Barbara
• Waring, George
• Warshall, Peter
• Washington, Karen
• Watson, Paul
• Waxman, Henry
• Werbach, Adam
• Whealy, Diane, and Kent Whealy
• White, Gilbert F.
• White, Lynn, Jr.
• Whitman, Walt
• Willcox, Louisa
• Wille, Chris
• Williams, Terry Tempest
• Wilson, Edward O.
• Winter, Paul
• Wolf, Hazel
• Wolke, Howie
• Woodwell, George
• Worster, Donald
• Y
• Yard, Robert Sterling
• Z
• Zahniser, Howard
• Zwick, David
• Appendixes
• Introduction to Key Documents
• Timeline of American Environmentalism