Apes Chapter 2

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thoreau

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alarmed at the loss of numerous wild species; to gain a better understanding, built a cabin and lived in solitude

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george marsh

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member of congress and scientist; helped legislators and citizens see the need for resource conservation; questioned u.s.'s thoughts that resources were inexhaustable

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forest reserve act of 1891

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turning pt in establishing responsibility of fed gov for protecting public lands from resource exploitation

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john muir

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nature preservationist and activist; founded the sierra cluub; became the leader of the preservationalist movement that called for protecting large areas of wilderness from human exploitation

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theodore roosevelt

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"golden age of conservation:; persuaded congress to give him power to designate public land as fed wildlife refuges;
tripled the size of the national forest reserves

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gifford pinchot

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pioneered scientific management of foreset resources on public lands

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antiquities act

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gave the president power to protect areas of sci or historical interest on fed lands as national monuments

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national park service act

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declared that parks are to be maintained in a manner that leaves them unimpaired for future generation
established the nationl park service

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president hoover

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proposed that fed gov return all remaining fed land to the states or sell them to private interest for economic growth

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FDR

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persuaded congress to to enact fed gov programs to provide jobs and restore the degraded environment

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civilian conservation corps

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put people to work by planting trees and developing and maintaining parks and recreation areas; restored waterways, built levees and dams

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rachel carson

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wrote silent spinrg;
helped broaden concept of resources conservation to include preservation of air, water, and soil quality

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wilderness act

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authorized gov to protect undeveloped tracts of public land as part of the nation

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pres nixon

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established envionmental protection endangered species act;

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sagerbrush

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1- sharply reduce gov regulation of the use of public lands
2-remove most public lands int he western us from fed ownership to private

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jimmy carter

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created the department of energy to develop a long range energy strategy to reduce the conuntrys dependence on oil

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ronald reagan

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self declared sagebrush rebel; opposed most existing environmental and pulic land use laws and policies

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wide use movement

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goals were to weaken or repeal most of the country's envionmental laws and regulations and ddestroy the effectiveness of the envionmental laws

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george HW bush

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conitnued support of exploitation of valuable resources on bpublic lands

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bill clinton

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vetoed most of the anti environmental bills; made forest health tye priority in managing forests; used antiquites act to protect land in the west

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george w bush

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weakened protections on almost as much public lands as teddy roosevelt protected;
opposed increasting gas mileage standards; placed emphasis on fossil fuels