Whose Work Helped Create Support for the Passage of the Wilderness

question 54

Multiple Choice

Whose work helped create support for the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1969?

• A)George Perkins Marsh
• B)Henry David Thoreau
• C)Wallace Stegner
• D)Aldo Leopold

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