Willard G. Van Name

Willard Gibbs Van Name was an American biologist and conservationist active in the national conservation movement from the 1920s into the 1950s. In 1929, he and Rosalie Edge established the Emergency Conservation Committee (ECC) to combat inadequate wildlife protection policies and to expose the ineffectiveness of major conservation groups at the time, particularly the National Association of Audubon Societies. In addition to successfully challenging NAAS, over two decades the ECC successfully advocated for the creation of Olympic (Washington) and Kings Canyon (California) National Parks, the

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