Lady Bird Johnson and Udall on a trip to Grand Teton National Park, August 1964
Stewart Udall was the United States Secretary of the Interior during the Kennedy and Johnson eras in the 1960’s. His department promoted the expansion of federal public lands and helped enact some major environmental legislation, including the Wilderness Act, the Endangered Species Preservation Act and the National Trail System Act (to name a few). Udall helped add four new national parks, six national monuments, eight national seashores and lakeshores, nine national recreation areas, twenty national historic sites and fifty-six national wildlife refuges throughout the U.S..
Udall was a supporter of Rachel Carson’s work and wrote his own book, The Quiet Crisis (1963), which discussed the dangers of pollution, overuse of natural resources and the decrease of open spaces.
In 1967, Stewart Udall was awarded the National Audubon Society’s highest honor, the Audubon medal.
Sources:
“Udall Foundation – Main Page.” Udall Foundation – Main Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2016.
