Early National Conservation Organizations
Posted: 01-Jan-2000; Updated: 17-Jan-2002
Many of today's groups had their beginnings long before Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962.
Organization | Founded | Recent Membership |
American Forestry Association | 1875 | 35,000 |
Sierra Club | 1892 | 450,000 |
Wildlife Conservation International | 1895 | 34,000 |
National Audobon Society | 1905 | 550,000 |
National Parks and Conservation Association | 1919 | 70,000 |
The Izaac Walton League of America | 1922 | 50,000 |
The Wilderness Society | 1935 | 220,000 |
National Wildlife Federation | 1936 | 5,800,000 |
Ducks Unlimited | 1937 | 610,000 |
Defenders of Wildlife | 1947 | 80,000 |
The Nature Conservancy | 1951 | 343,000 |
Friends of Animals | 1957 | 120,000 |
Trout Unlimited | 1959 | 58,000 |
World Wildlife Fund-U.S. | 1961 | 500,000 |
Source: Conservation Directory
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