Friends of the Earth: A History of American Environmentalism with 21 Activities
Cordelia 1934 Roger Tory Peterson creates his bird identifica tion system 1935 TheWildnernessSocietyisformed 1947 Marjory Stoneman Douglas's River of Grass is published Everglades National Park is created Marjory 1949 Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac is pub lished 1960 Arctic National Wildlife Reserve is created due to efforts by Mardie and Olaus Murie 1962 Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is published 1964 The Wilderness Act is passed 1970 The Clean Air Act is passed The first Earth Day is observed
The Environmental Protection Agency is created Rachel 1989 The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurs in Alaska 2006 Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is published 2011 The BP oil spill occurs in the Gulf of Mexico
INTRODUCTION SAVING LUNA LIFE IN A GIANT REDWOOD or 18 hours the winds howled and the rain pelted down Julia Butterfly Hill held onto her tree for dear life Ninety mile per hour winds tipped the six by eight foot wooden platform on which she lived in the giant red wood tree One gust actually blew her three feet off the platform She managed to grab branches and hold on until she could make her way back Julia said she learned from this storm that in order to survive you have to quit fighting bend with the wind and go with the flow You're probably wondering why Hill was living in a tree A year earlier she had been
critically injured in a car crash It took her nearly a year to recover and she used that time to consider what she believed was important in life She took a trip west to try to decide what to do with her life Hill tells about her first sight of the ancient redwoods When I entered the majestic cathe dral of the redwood forest for the first time my spirit knew it had found what it was searching for I dropped to my knees and began to cry because I was so overwhelmed by the wisdom energy and spirituality housed in this holiest of temples Hill had been horrified by the clear cutting of red woods in California She was devastated when she saw her first redwoods being cut She says I sobbed screamed raged and cried because it hurt so It was very painful When she learned that only 3 percent of the giant redwoods remained she decided to take action Hill and many others had tried to inform the American people of the problem No one paid much attention So when she heard that a group was look ing for someone who would spend some time sitting in the giant redwood tree known as Luna Julia Vol unteered On December 10 1997 when Hill was 23 years
