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  • American Wildlands - Regional conservation work primarily on public lands in the Northern Rockies
  • Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment - Educational and research foundation established to support environmental goals based on responsible, individual liberty and harmonized with economic prosperity.
  • Gallatin Institute - New organization for Western writers fostering exchange between environmental writers and policy analysts to find emerging coherence in America's West.
  • Political Economy Research Center - A research institute promoting free market environmentalism as a solution to problems with forests, parks, public lands, pollution and wildlife.
  • The Wild Rockies Slate - A collective website with News, Information, and Home Pages for environmental groups in the Wild Rockies Bioregion.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.