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Rachel Carson
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Noun1.Rachel Carson - United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)


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Among the topics are whether the loss of the Roanoke Colony was caused by environmental factors, whether a whale was worth the effort to Nantucketeers, working in a coal mine, Little Bighorn and native policy, Rachael Carson and changing views of chemicals, conceiving of human evolution, Love Canal and the Superfund, the Green Party, and wolves in Yellowstone.
All the actors are present--from Thoreau and Muir to Rachael Carson, Aldo Leopold, Barry Commoner, and Edward Abbey--to mention only a few of many Dunlop casts in his quest to understand "environmentalism as an expression of the human impulse toward religion.
Among the Eugene area volunteers participating last year - and in each of the three previous years - was Tim Whitley and about a dozen volunteers he recruited each September from among concerned students enrolled in the Rachael Carson Center program at Churchill High School, where Whitley is a teacher.
 
 
 
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