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  • Idaho Conservation League - Works to protect and conserve Idaho's natural resources. Program areas include forestry, grazing, mining, water, endangered species.
  • Idaho's Wild-Eyed Wilderness - WEM promotes Idaho's roadless areas in the media. We're using advertising and public relations to keep public lands in public hands.

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.