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Forest Reserve Act
allowed the U.S. President to set aside lands as national forests. Preserves water resources until forested lands can be opened for settlement and exploitation. -
Lacey Act
Provides protection to both plants and wildlife by criminalizing the intentional violation of certain federal wildlife laws. -
Antiquities Act
any person who appropriates, excavates, injures, or destroys any historic or prehistoric ruin or monument, or any object of antiquity, situated on lands owned or controlled by the U.S. government, without permissions by the Secretary of the Department of government having jurisdiction will be fined in a sum of not more than $500 or be imprisoned for a period of not more than 90 days or suffer both. -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
established procedures for registering pesticides with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and established labeling provisions -
National Park Service Act
declared the fundamental purpose of the national park system as to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations -
Migratory Bird Act
makes it illegal for anyone to take, possess, import, export, transport, sell, purchase, barter, or offer for sale, purchase, or barter, any migratory bird, or the parts, nests, or eggs of such a bird except under the terms of a valid permit issued pursuant to Federal regulations -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp -
Taylor Grazing Act
intended to "stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration; to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development -
Soil Conservation Act
sought to control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health, public lands and relieve unemployment -
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) -vision is a just world that values and conserves nature. Keeps a list of threatened species, known as the red list. -
Price-Anderson Act
ensure that substantial funds will be available to compensate the public in the event of a nuclear accident -
Clean Air Act
provided funds for federal research in air pollution. -
Wilderness Act
created a way for Americans to protect their most pristine wildlands for future generations. -
Land and Water Conservation Act
supports the protection of federal public lands and waters; including national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and recreation areas and voluntary conservation on private land -
Resource Recovery Act
a major research program, run by the EPA, to develop new and innovative ways of dealing with solid waste. -
Clean Water Act
protects all waters of the United States. To this day, the Clean Water Act remains the primary tool used to protect our nation’s waters. -
Water Pollution Control Act
prepare comprehensive programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries and improving the sanitary condition of surface and underground waters -
Marine Mammal Protection Act
-prohibits the killing of ALL marine mammals in the U.S. and prohibits the import or export of any marine mammal body parts. -
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
(CITES) controls the international trade of threatened plants and animals and is an agreement between 175 countries. -
Endangered Species Act
provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
Safe Drinking Water Act
federal law that protects public drinking water supplies throughout the nation. Under the SDWA, EPA sets standards for drinking water quality and with its partners implements various technical and financial programs to ensure drinking water safety. -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
nation’s primary law governing the disposal of solid and hazardous waste -
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
aimed at cleaning up sites contaminated with hazardous waste, and prevent contamination of future sites by assigning liability to parties involved. The liability requires the parties to pay for the clean up of the sites -
Convention on Biological Diversity
-established a treaty to protect biodiversity, conservation, sustainable use, and equitably share the benefits that emerge from the commercial use of resources.
