Although a handful of environmental organizations were founded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they were not influential enough to comprise a social movement. For example, the Sierra Club (founded in 1892), the National Audubon Society (1905), and the National Parks Association (1919, now the National Parks Conservation Association) had specific political agendas, and their memberships were relatively small. The environmental movement did not begin to coalesce until after... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2023. 3p.