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America's most famous naturalist and conservationist, very influential. Also known as "The Father of our National Parks,""Wilderness Prophet," and "Citizenof the Universe."
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A "reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings."
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You could apply for a federal land grant if you had never taken up arms against the US government, were over 21 years of age, or were the head of a family.
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A non-profit conservation organization that serves the purpose of protecting and restoring healthy forest ecosystems.
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Reversed previous policies, granted increased plots of public land while decreasing extraction rights to privately held western land owners.
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An environmental organization founded by John Muir with the initial purpose of defeating a proposed reduction in boundaries of Yosemite National Park.
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A conservation law that prohibits trade of wildlife, fish,and plants that have been taken, possessed, or sold illegally.
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An American forester and politician who served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service.
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An American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist who reformed the management and development of US forests.
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An environmental organization that is non-profit, it is dedicated to conservation.
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Administers the 154 national forests of the nation and 20 grasslands, all of which encompass 193 million acres.
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First law that declared archeological sites on public lands as important resources.
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A public relief work program, part of the New Deal targeted towards helping unemployed, umarried men from relief families.
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Provides technical assistance to private landowners and mangers (farmers etc.).
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Regulates grazing on public lands in an attempt to improve rangeland conditions.
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Any person hunting ducks, geese, swan, or brant, is 16 years old or older has to carry a current Duck Stamp.
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Manage fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. Work to conserve and protect them.
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An environmental science book documenting the detrimental effects on the environment of the use of pesticides.
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Regulates the air quality of the United States.
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Defined wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain,” while creating the National Wilderness Preservation System.
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Regulates the air quality of the United States.
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Selected rivers are set to be preserved because of their remarkable values.
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Was result of water pollution and helped spur an environmental movement.
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The Act etablished the President's Council on Environmental Quality while promoting the enhancement of the environment.
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Regulates the air quality of the United States.
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Established the basic system of pesticide regulation in an attempt to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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Embargoset against the US by Arab members in response to US Israeli support in war.
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Established the basic system of pesticide regulation in an attempt to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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A pubic law that provides the proper waste management of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes that are solid.
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Regulates the air quality of the United States.
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Primary Act in US that governs the pollution of water.
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Federal Law regulating the environmental effects of coal mining in the US.
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Established the basic system of pesticide regulation in an attempt to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation disposed more than 20,000 tons of chemical wastes into Love Canal. A canal of which they purchased.
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The worst comercial US power plant accident in history. Considered a "partial nuclear meltdown."
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Federal Law providing varying degrees of protection to over 100,000,000 acres of land.
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Federal Law set to clean sites up that were contaminated with different hazardous substances.
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Considered the world's worst industrial accident,a gas leak in India that lead to many deaths.
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Federal Law set to clean sites up that were contaminated with different hazardous substances.
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Nuclear disaster in which an explosion and fire released radioactive toxins throughout regions of Europe and Western USSR.
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An international treaty signed in an attempt to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of products responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer.
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Established the basic system of pesticide regulation in an attempt to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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An oil tanker located in Alaska that spilled thousands of barrels of crude oil. Listed as the 54th largest oil spill in history.
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Regulates the air quality of the United States.
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Federal Law set to clean sites up that were contaminated with different hazardous substances.
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Government Act intended to increase the use of clean energy and improve energy efficiency.
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Federal Law that established in the California desert the Death Valley, Joshua National Tree Parks, and Mojave National Preserve.
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International Treaty that extends the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) of 1992.
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