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John Muir
Naturalist, Writer, and Father of the American Conservation Movement
Rachel Carson
Marine Biologist and Author Whose Silent Spring Launched the Environmental Movement, 1907–1964
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President who broke trusts, conserved millions of acres, and remade American power
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Alaska
Seward's Icebox — America's largest and most remote state
Glacier National Park
The Montana park named for ice formations now disappearing within a generation
Grand Canyon National Park
The mile-deep Colorado River gorge protected from dam projects in 1968
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The most-visited national park, created by dispossessing 6,600 Appalachian families
Mississippi River
The continent's central artery — highway, boundary, and the most mythologized river in American history
Niagara Falls
The Great Lakes-fed waterfall that powered the second industrial revolution
San Francisco
California's gateway city, remade by gold, catastrophe, and perpetual reinvention
Seattle
Gateway to Alaska, birthplace of Boeing, and capital of the Pacific Northwest
Yellowstone National Park
The world's first national park, established 1872
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1900 Galveston Hurricane
The deadliest natural disaster in American history
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
The worst river flood in American history — and the disaster that built the modern federal government
Hurricane Katrina
The 2005 storm and flood that devastated New Orleans and exposed a broken federal safety net
Tennessee Valley Authority
The New Deal's most ambitious experiment — electrifying Appalachia and remaking a region
The Dust Bowl
The ecological catastrophe that stripped the Great Plains bare, 1930–1940
The Great Chicago Fire
The 1871 blaze that destroyed a city — and rebuilt it greater
The Johnstown Flood
The 1889 dam failure that drowned a city and shamed the Gilded Age elite
The Paris Climate Agreement
The 2015 global pact to limit climate change — and America's wavering role
Three Mile Island
The 1979 nuclear accident that ended the American nuclear power era
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Disasters in American History
The fires, floods, plagues, and catastrophes that shaped the nation
The Environmental Movement
From Theodore Roosevelt's conservation to Rachel Carson's alarm to the unresolved politics of climate
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