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As the bulldozers clearing the way for I-91, Vermont's first interstate highway, reached Ascutney, Romaine Tenney made good on his promise not to see his family's farmland paved over. He burned his house and farm with him inside. The state was…

Many important books were published during this period, in particular Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, which many historians credit with initiating the environmental movement in the United States, but also Stewart Udell's Quiet Crisis. In…

Prompted by a greater public concern for the environment, in addition to influential novels such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Stewart Udall's Quiet Crisis, the federal government signs several significant acts towards the conservation of…

By the mid 1960s, the United States had demonstrated its capacity to transform environments on a large scale, anywhere it the world. Above ground nuclear weapons testing irradiated parts of the American West and the Pacific, sickening many over the…

Spearheaded by Howard Woodin, the Environmental Studies Major first becomes available in the 1965-1966 course catalog. Choosing an focus in human ecology, ecology, or biology, students could now receive one of the first Environmental Studies major…

At a faculty meeting on May 3rd, 1965 Middlebury College faculty approved the establishment of the Environmental Studies major. The major program was developed by Professor Andrews and the Educational Policy Committee, and first proposed at a faculty…

A crown fire consumes the Yellowstone canopy in September 1988. Within the park, fires damaged around 739,880 acres - that is, 36% of the park's total land.

Photos of Hillcrest being demolished and after its reconstruction

Images of oil-slicked wildlife elicited strong emotions during the Exxon Valdez disaster. In comparison, the people who bore the catastrophe's widespread economic costs received sparse coverage. Here, a man protests the lack of work brought about by…