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[https://www.treehugger.com/six-good-things-richard-nixon-did-for-the-environment-4869322 by Shea Gunther 14/8/24 Treehugger] | [https://www.treehugger.com/six-good-things-richard-nixon-did-for-the-environment-4869322 by Shea Gunther 14/8/24 Treehugger] | ||
When most people think of President Richard Nixon, the term "environmentalist" isn't the word that immediately leaps to mind. The 37th president, who resigned from office in 1973 after the Watergate scandal, left a surprisingly strong environmental legacy, giving our nation new legislation governing protection of the air, water and wilderness. | When most people think of President Richard Nixon, the term "environmentalist" isn't the word that immediately leaps to mind. The 37th president, who resigned from office in 1973 after the Watergate scandal, left a surprisingly strong environmental legacy, giving our nation new legislation governing protection of the air, water and wilderness. | ||
=====Theodore Roosevelt===== | |||
[https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/green-life/2014/02/4-surprisingly-green-presidents by Sierra Club] | |||
Despite his unabashed taste for hunting, Theodore Roosevelt was undeniably a lover of nature, and perhaps our first environmentalist president. Throughout his presidency, Roosevelt used executive action like no other president before him to reach his conservationist goals. Roosevelt ensured that Yellowstone National Park could not be exploited for commercial goals and established over 50 national bird refuges through executive action. He would go on to found the U.S. Forest Service and create the | |||
first 18 National Monuments, including Muir Woods, Grand Canyon, and Devils Tower. | |||
