Talk:Alaska Conservation Society

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Did you know... that the Alaska Conservation Society was the first grassroots environmental conservation organization created in the U.S. state of Alaska?

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The group's influence grew after Chariot and Rampart were canceled, a fact illustrated by the selection of Alaska Conservation Society president Ernst W. Muller as commissioner of the Alaska State Department of Environmental Conservation in 1975.

Sounds like cherry-picking a source to me. Jay Hammond and Lowell Thomas, Jr. were not shy about their environmentalist leanings during the 1974 campaign, and they placed lots of environmentalists in state government positions once elected. As head of a principal department in the executive branch (and by extension, a member of Hammond's cabinet), Ernst Muller was probably little more than the most obvious example of this due to his visibility.

Between Chariot/Rampart and the election of Hammond and Thomas, the real thrust of the environmental movement in Alaska was when the Sierra Club, still at the time under the leadership of David Brower, identified Alaska as the most important upcoming battleground for the environmental movement in the United States. The timing of the governor of Alaska, Wally Hickel, who appeared to advocate turning Alaska into a parking lot while in office, being named the new Secretary of the Interior probably did much to fan those flames. The Alaska of 40 or so years ago was still chock full of people like Joe Vogler; there was far more impetus for the environmental movement from outside Alaska than from inside Alaska during those times. RadioKAOS – Talk to me, Billy 03:19, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]