Robert Marshall, Aldo Leopold, & Colleagues Found The Wilderness Society

On January 21, 1935 Robert Marshall, chief of recreation and lands for the Forest Service, and Aldo Leopold, noted wildlife ecologist and later author of A Sand County Almanac, and Robert Sterling Yard, publicist for the National Park Service, and Benton MacKaye, the "Father of the Appalachian Trail", and Ernest Oberholtzer, Harvey Broome, Bernard Frank, and Harold C. Anderson founded The Wilderness Society.

"Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has led the conservation movement in wilderness protection, writing and passing the landmark Wilderness Act and winning lasting protection for 107 million acres of Wilderness, including 56 million acres of spectacular lands in Alaska, eight million acres of fragile desert lands in California and millions more throughout the nation" (The Wilderness Society website).