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Forest Reserve Act
Allowed president to set aside forest reserves (land) -
Lacey Act
Law that prohibits importing, exporting, transporting, selling, receiving, acquiring, or purchases of plants, animals, or fish without a federal permit. Requires to restore areas that species were close to becoming extinct (biodiversity) -
Antiquities Act
General protection for any general culture or natural resource -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
requires all commercial pesticides to be approved by the EPA for general/restricted use (air) -
National Park Service Act
established the national parks and service to manage the park (land) -
Migratory Bird Act:
law that protects birds from people (biodiversity) -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
requires purchase of a stamp by waterfowl hunters. Program has protected about 4.5 million acres (biodiversity) -
Taylor Grazing Act
Federal law that regulates grazing on federal public land. (Land) -
Soil Conservation Act of 1935
sets government payment to farmers to reduce production to conserve soil (land) -
Water Pollution Control Act
authorized comprehensive programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters -
International Union for the Conversation of Nature
IUCN wants a world that values and conserves nature. IUCN keeps a list called the red list that keep track of threatened species. -
Price-Anderson Act
protect nuclear industry against liability claims from nuclear incidents -
Wilderness Act
Authorized the government to protect undeveloped tracts to public land as part of the national wilderness system (land) -
Land and Water Conservation Act
established a fund to help states and federal agencies meet present and future outdoor creation demand (land) -
Clean Air Act
set emission standards for cars and limit the release of air pollutants (air) -
Clean Water Act
Law setting a national goal of making all natural surface water fit for fishing and swimming. Banned polluted discharged into surface water (land/biodiversity) -
Marine Mammal Protection Act
Prohibits killing all marine mammals in the Unites States and prohibits the imports or exports of any marine mammal body part -
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
CITES of Wild Fauna and Flora controls the international trade of threatened plants and animals. Agreement between 175 countries -
Safe Drinking Water Act
Protect the quality of drinking water, both underground and surface water -
Resource Recovery Act
governs disposal of hazardous and solid waste -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
controls hazardous waste with a “cradle to grave” system -
Comprehensive Environment Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980
Facilitate and cleanup of any abandoned sites that contain hazardous substances and to apply strict liability for cleanup cost -
Convention on Biological Diversity
Established a treaty to protect biodiversity 1. conservation 2. sustainable use 3. equitably share the benefits that emerge from the commercial use of resources -
Habitat Suitability Index
describes the suitability of a given habitat by combining the interactions of all key environmental variables on a species. Gives recommendations on how close to another area they should be, how large, and the amount of edge the area contains. -
Conserving Ecosystem Biodiversity
Wildlife management: application of ecological knowledge to populations of vertebrate animals and their plant and animal associates in a manner that creates a balance between the needs of those populations and the needs of people