Norton to Unveil Tribute to Environmentalist Pioneer Rachel Carson in Glover Archbold Park, Today

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After years of working with Glover Park residents to get recognition of Rachel Carson's work in the District of Columbia, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join residents and Rock Creek Park Superintendent Tara Morrison to unveil a special informational feature in Glover Archbold Park honoring Carson, the environmental pioneer and an inspiration for the development of the environmental movement, today, Tuesday, September 27, 2016, at 1:00 p.m., at 4400 Reservoir Road NW. Initially, the community requested that a trail in Glover Archbold Park be named for Carson, and in 2013, Norton introduced a bill to rename the trail after Carson, and a companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA). When the National Park Service (NPS) and other officials could not be convinced, Norton worked with NPS on a compromise and got the agency to install the interactive feature honoring Carson in Glover Archbold Park. Carson, a federal employee who wrote for the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, used Glover Archbold Park as a site to draw observations about nature and the environment.

"It has become a pleasure to work with the Glover Park community, who did the hard work of gathering picture and other evidence that enabled us to get this long-overdue recognition of Rachel Carson's path-breaking environmental work installed where it belongs--in Glover Archbold Park," Norton said. "The credit for this achievement goes to the residents who worked for years to raise awareness on the need to properly honor Carson. I hope that the feature will educate visitors to Glover Archbold Park about the environmental movement that began with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring."

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