Prominent Austinites Form Environmental Group

Engineer Russell Fish, Ecologist Dr. Frank Blair, Mrs. Fagan Dickson & Attorney Frank Booth (Austin Chamber of Commerce Magazine, May 1970)

Engineer Russell Fish, Ecologist Dr. Frank Blair, Mrs. Fagan Dickson & Attorney Frank Booth
Austin Chamber of Commerce Magazine, May 1970

1969

The Austin Environmental Council, the city's first home-grown environmental organization is formed. Its founders were dissatisfied with the City's lack of initiative to protect Austin's natural heritage.

It was obvious that all sorts of developments...were about to be created along the creek and we felt that both the city and the individual landowners and developers simply had to be made to stop and think before they spoiled something which could never be replaced.

— Russell Fish, Austin Environmental Council President

Austin Environmental Council pamphlet

Austin Environmental Council pamphlet
Brian Hunt Collection
AEC mission statement, President Russell Fish

AEC mission statement, President Russell Fish
Brian Hunt Collection

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A Chronology of Environmental Organizations

Audubon Society Formed
1952
Audubon Society, 1952
Austin Environmental Council Founded
1969
Engineer Russell Fish, Ecologist Dr. Frank Blair, Mrs. Fagan Dickson & Attorney Frank Booth
Anti Development Groups Organize
1978/79
Betty Brown, Zilker Park Posse
Provocative Activism Draws Attention
June 1990
Earth First! member photographs endangered birds on land slated for development
Save Our Springs Coalition Forms
August 1991
Environmental groups come together to present guidelines to protect Barton Springs and Barton Creek
SOS Coalition Becomes SOS Alliance
Sept 1992
Environmental Attorney Bill Bunch at the Texas Capitol
Hill Country Conservancy Founded
September 1999
Hill Country Conservancy Founder George Cofer Celebrates Purchase of Storm Ranch