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Article: Eight bright ideas that have powered NWF through six decades. (National Wildlife Federation)
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- National Wildlife
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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Forty-five years ago, NWF adopted a resolution stating that the organization should to the defense of any species that is in any way endangered as to its existence"
1 The wildlife lobby was there all along: As America was struggling to emerge from the Great Depression of the 1930s, its government from President Franklin D. Roosevelt on down was concentrating on economic recovery. The need to protect the country's wildlife habitat, precious topsoil and other resources seldom came to the public's attention; natural resources had few advocates powerful enough to raise the subject on a national level.
One exception was Jay N. "Ding" Darling, a Pulitzer ...