“The most honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation.”

Rosalie Edge

Nov 30, 1877-Nov 30, 1962

Rosalie Edge was well-educated at Miss Doremus’ School and did not attend college. Rosalie Edge’s society upbringing and lack of a naturalist’s education or much exposure to the natural world outside Central Park, prepared her to become the conservation leader of her generation. Her key environmental issues of concern were wildlife; hawks in particular. Rosalie Edge was an early leader in the environmental movement who founded one of the oldest wildlife sanctuaries in North America: Hawk Mountain. She was a Conservationist, Essayist and Women’s Rights Activist. Hawk of Mercy was a book written about her by Dyana Z. Furmansky and how she was the activist who saved nature from the conservationists. On New Year’s Eve she successfully founded the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary near Kempton. The association Edge founded runs the Sanctuary today, saving birds, conducting research, and running educational programs. In a 1948 New Yorker magazine profile, she was called “The most honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation.” Rosalie Edge would be more concerned with a current issue that involved animals instead of other seemingly more prominent issues such as global warming. Rosalie Edge would most likely try to do somthing about the commercial fishing that's wiping out many species of fish in the ocean because she was very zealous in her part of wildlife conservation and believed that to be very important.

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