Conservation Heroes

Commemorating the pioneers who helped save our environment. Plaques of these heroes are placed around the National Conservation Training Center Campus.

Surname	First Name	Years	Profile
Abbey	Edward	1927-1989
Appel	JC	N/A
Atkeson	Tom
Atkins	Charlie	1841-1921
Bailey	Florence Merriam	1863-1948
Bailey	Vernon	1864-1942
Baird	Spencer	1823-1887	"Spencer Fullerton Baird: A Biography (1915)
Baxter	Charles Kelton	1948-2009
Beattie	Mollie	1947-1996
Bennett	Hugh Hammond
Berryman	Jack	1921-1999
Brower	David	1912-2000
Carr	Archie	1909-1987
Carson	Rachel	1907-1964	Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge National Digital Library - Media Resources...
Craighead	Frank	1916-2001
Craighead	John	1916-2001
Crissey	Walt	1915-2009
Darling	J.N. Ding	1876-1962	Darling on "Conserving Our Wildlife" (1935) Darling on Cartooning.
Darwin	Charles	1809-1882
Dieffenbach	Rudolph
Dill	Herb	N/A
Dingell	Congressman John	1894-1955	NCTC Hero Plaque
Douglas	Marjory Stoneman	1890-1998
Edge	Rosalie	1877-1962
Errington	Paul	1902-1962
Fisher	A.K.
Fossey	Dian	1932-1985
Gabrielson	Ira	1889-1977
George	Jean Craighead	1919-2012
Gillham	Charles E.
Glover	Fred	N/A
Goldman	E.A.	1873-1946
Goldman	Luther J.	1909-2005
Gottschalk	John	1913-1999
Green	Seth	1817-1888
Grinnell	George Bird	1849-1938
Grosvenor	Gilbert	1875-1966
Hamerstrom	Frances	1907-1998
Hamilton	Sam	1955-2010
Hawkins	Art	1913-2006
Hines	Robert	1912-1994
Holland	Ray
Hornaday	William	1854-1937
Hunt	Charles Francis "Chuck"	1944-2000
Hunter	Celia	1919-2001
Johnson	Senator Edwin	1884-1970	NCTC Hero Plaque
Johnsson	Robert	1937-2001	NCTC Hero Plaque
Jones	Robert "Sea Otter"	1916-1998
Kennicott	Robert
Kroegel	Paul	1864-1948
Lawyer	George	N/A
Laybourne	Roxie	1910-2003
Lensink	Calvin "Cal"	1927-2009
Leopold	Luna	1915-2006
Leopold	Aldo	1887-1948	Brief excerpt from his writings.
Lilly	Ben	1856-1936
Lincoln	Frederick	1892-1960
Losey	Elizabeth	1913-2005
Lynch	John	1915-1983
Maathai	Wangari	1940-2011
MacKaye	Benton	1879-1975
Marsh	George Perkins	1801-1882
Marshall	Arthur		A Guide to the Arthur R. Marshall, Jr. Papers
Marshall	David	1926-2011
Marshall	Robert	1901-1939
Mendes	Chico	1944-1988
Merovka	Larry	N/A
Merriam	C. Hart	1855-1942	Biographical Memoir of C. Hart Merriam (1944)t
Muir	John	1838-1914
Murie	Mardy	1902-2003	Virtual Exhibit: A Natural Life: The Muries' Conservation Legacy
Murie	Olaus	1889-1963	Virtual Exhibit: A Natural Life: The Muries' Conservation Legacy Selected readings from Olaus Murie
Murie	Adolph	1899-1974
Mushbach	George	N/A
Nelson	Edward	1883-1923
Oliveros	Joe	1951-2001
Parker	Willie J.	1925-2010
Perry	John	N/A
Rhode	Clarence	1913-1958
Roehan	Ken	1888-1976
Ridgway	Robert
Roosevelt	Theodore	1858-1919
Rucker	Robert R.	1912-1998
Salyer	J. Clark	1902-1966
Sinclair	John	1920-2006
Smith	Lawrence "Larry"	1925-
Snieszko	S.F.	1902-1984
Stegner	Wallace	1909-1993
Stehn	Tom	1949-
Stephano	Tony
Stickell	Lucille	1915-2007
Stone	Livingston	1836-1912
Taylor	John	1949-2014
Thornsberry	Howard	N/A
Tingley	Ada
Valentine	Jacob	1917-2000
Watson	Jack	1913-1982
Wetmore	Alexander	1886-1978
White	Sam	1891-1976
Wilkirson	Sidney "Pete"	N/A
Williams	C.S.
Williams	Noah	N/A
Young	Stanley
Zahniser	Howard	1906-1964