The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson On Earth Day 1970 twenty million Americans displayed their commitment to a clean environment. It was called the largest demonstration in human history, and it permanently changed the nation’s political agenda. By Earth Day 2000 participation had exploded to 500 million people in 167 countries. Winner, Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize, University of Wisconsin Press |
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... County . On 23 April 1879 Sheldon Bradt , thirty - two , married Hanora ( Nora ) O'Brien , twenty - eight , daughter of a Waupaca County pioneer family and the first white child born in the county . They were Gaylord's maternal ...
Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson Bill Christofferson. county prosecutor before entering private practice with Lyall Beggs , a former Dane County district attorney . Beggs had served in the state as- sembly since 1941 and was ...
... county forests , local governments won passage of a bill in 1961 that would have virtually ended the program by allowing counties to sell the forest land for private development . Despite the potential political fallout from the twenty ...
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