The environmental movement was raging in the 70s and momentum was chugging along with the creation of the EPA and…

In 1964, the Wilderness Act was passed, allowing the federal government to set aside certain lands and designate them as…

In the late 1900s, two movements sparkled especially in the western part of the U.S—the Sagebrush Rebellion and the Wise…

The Sagebrush Rebellion was “a populist protest against public land reform supported by western citizens, the natural resource industries, and…

 THis article talks about the sagebrush rebellion adn how it was successful and it opinion that helped shape the mind…

In the 1980s and 1990s, many people in western America were angry about how the government managed public lands. They…

The history of environmentalism is like a swinging pendulum, going from an active manipulation of the environment approach to a…

Beginning in the early 1980s, environmentalists were demonized by conservative Republicans, particularly under the Reagan administration, as “extremists” who posed…

There is this idea that environmentalism is neutral. That wanting to protect the land is separate from politics and preserving…