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Protectors of the Land and Water: Environmentalism in Wisconsin, 1961-1968

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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Wisconsin citizens have promoted innovative environmental programs. All over the 1960s Wisconsin used to be again at the vanguard of the movement advancing mainstream political environmentalism. Thomas Huffman traces the upward push of environmentalism in the Badger State All over these key years, when the people of Wisconsin instituted policies in such areas as outdoor recreation and resource planning, water pollution keep an eye on, the preservation of wild rivers, and centralized environmental management. Huffman focuses especially on the influence of Senator Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat and founder of Earth Day, and Governor Warren Knowles, a Republican. He shows that their efforts–and the efforts of their followers in citizen groups, the business and university communities, and the state government–clearly indicate that the origins of environmentalism cannot be placed along a left-right political spectrum. Relatively, the movement evolved from an interweaving of liberal and conservative ideologies and from important traditions and precedents within the state’s environmental culture. What happened in Wisconsin is particularly significant, Huffman points out, on account of the effect of that state’s example on other states and the federal government.

Originally published in 1994.

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