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Historical Highway MarkersIra Noel Gabrielson 1889--1977T-46-a
Oakton resident Dr. Ira Noel Gabrielson was a pioneer conservationist, distinguished field ornithologist, and renowned author. He served as the first director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and an international leader of conservation projects. Gabrielson was a founder and the first chairman of the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority and first president of World Wildlife Fund-US. For his life's work, he was inducted into the National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Hall of Fame in 1978. His land, between Leeds Road and Difficult Run, is a Fairfax County park known as Gabrielson Gardens Park.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Darland, Robert. “Conservation Hall of Fame: He Brought Order to America’s Wildlife Management Efforts,” National Wildlife Magazine, Jun/Jul 2000, vol. 38 no. 4. Gabrielson, Ira N. “Memoirs of Ira Noel Gabrielson and What Others Have Said About Him,” Compiled by Robert A. Nesbitt, 1987, unpublished. One copy is held at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7319, Box 5, Folder 6 and one copy at the Fairfax County Park Authority Archives, Christianne Fowler Collection. Hailey, Jean R. “Ira Gabrielson, Conservation Pioneer,” the Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 1977. Reeves, Henry M. and David B. Marshall. “In Memoriam: Ira Noel Gabrielson,’ the Auk, vol. 102: 865-868, October 1985. Nizzola-Tabja, Cecilia. Email the Trish Strat dated July 26, 2007, “Historical IUCN Question,” CEC Membership Liaison Officer/Learning and Leadership, IUCN—The World Conservation Union, CH-1196 Gland/ Switzerland. “Doctor of Science Degree Conferred on Gabrielson,” US Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Information Press Service, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1936. Gabrielson Retirement Notice, Department of the Interior Information Service, March 7, 1946. Gabrielson Death Notice, Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, Sept. 8, 1977. “Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson—‘Mr. Conservation,’” Death Notice, Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Services News Release, Sept. 9, 1977. Library of Congress Catalog, listing of books written, co-written, or edited by Ira N. Gabrielson. “Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit History,” http://www.cfwru.iastate.edu/history.htm |