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Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way

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Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way is the story of the garden club ladies, hunters and fishers, bird-watchers, university professors and scientists, newspaper reporters and columnists, and traditional conservationists who drew attention to the harmful effects of "the miracle pesticide" DDT, which was being used to control Dutch elm disease. The six-month-long DDT hearing in Madison, Wisconsin, which began in December 1968, was one of the first chapters of citizen activism in the modern ...

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Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way 2014, Wisconsin Historical Society Press

ISBN-13: 9780870206443

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