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Allowed president to set aside forest reserves (land)
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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)
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General protection for any general culture or natural resource
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requires all commercial pesticides to be approved by the EPA for general/restricted use (air)
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established the national parks and service to manage the park (land)
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law that protects birds from people (biodiversity)
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requires purchase of a stamp by waterfowl hunters. Program has protected about 4.5 million acres (biodiversity)
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Federal law that regulates grazing on federal public land. (Land)
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sets government payment to farmers to reduce production to conserve soil (land)
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authorized comprehensive programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters
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IUCN wants a world that values and conserves nature. IUCN keeps a list called the red list that keep track of threatened species.
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protect nuclear industry against liability claims from nuclear incidents
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Authorized the government to protect undeveloped tracts to public land as part of the national wilderness system (land)
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established a fund to help states and federal agencies meet present and future outdoor creation demand (land)
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set emission standards for cars and limit the release of air pollutants (air)
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Law setting a national goal of making all natural surface water fit for fishing and swimming. Banned polluted discharged into surface water (land/biodiversity)
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Prohibits killing all marine mammals in the Unites States and prohibits the imports or exports of any marine mammal body part
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CITES of Wild Fauna and Flora controls the international trade of threatened plants and animals. Agreement between 175 countries
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Protect the quality of drinking water, both underground and surface water
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governs disposal of hazardous and solid waste
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controls hazardous waste with a “cradle to grave” system
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Facilitate and cleanup of any abandoned sites that contain hazardous substances and to apply strict liability for cleanup cost
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Established a treaty to protect biodiversity 1. conservation 2. sustainable use 3. equitably share the benefits that emerge from the commercial use of resources
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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.
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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