As our nation celebrates the spirit of community action to benefit the environment this week, Izaak Walton League and our chapters are working in communities across America to conserve natural resources for future generations. Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed Earth Day in 1970 to “get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.” Mounting public pressure – pressure that Senator Nelson and the participants in the first Earth Day helped to rally – pushed Congress...
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