The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 65 best secures these twin primal conditions; and they are obtained in the high ...

66 The Environmental Debate flocks crop these grasses, and trample the leaves and cones into the ground, and make many trails th ...

As a major producer of iron and steel, coal and coke, oil, cotton and woolen goods, farm implements, and refined sugar, the Unit ...

the passage of the Reclamation Act [see Document 63], the federal government sold off massive amounts of public lands to provide ...

1909 North American Conservation Conference had set the groundwork for multilateral agreements on migratory species, and in 1916 ...

70 The Environmental Debate The exploitation of the beasts took hunter and trader to the west, the exploitation of the grasses t ...

The Roots of the Conservation Movement, 1890–1919 71 Document 61: Rivers and Harbors Act (1899) By the end of the nineteenth cen ...

72 The Environmental Debate in the future than in the past. Additions should be made to them whenever practicable, and their use ...

The Roots of the Conservation Movement, 1890–1919 73 and for the payment of all other expenditures provided for in this Act. Sou ...

74 The Environmental Debate Document 65: Ellen Swallow Richards on Sanitation and Human Ecology (1907) Ellen Swallow Richards, a ...

The Roots of the Conservation Movement, 1890–1919 75 DOCUMENT 66: Theodore Roosevelt on the Conservation and Use of Natural Reso ...

76 The Environmental Debate therefore is certain to be exhausted ultimately; and wastefulness in dealing with it to-day means th ...

The Roots of the Conservation Movement, 1890–1919 77 Document 68: John Muir, James Phelan, and the Battle over the Flooding of t ...

78 The Environmental Debate I am heartily in favor of a Sierra or even a Tuolumne water supply for San Francisco, but all the wa ...

The Roots of the Conservation Movement, 1890–1919 79 Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water- tanks the people’s cathedrals and ...

80 The Environmental Debate investment of private capital in the construction of irrigation works but rather to lend it encour- ...

The Roots of the Conservation Movement, 1890–1919 81 This Congress could accomplish no greater work beyond the stimulation of in ...

82 The Environmental Debate The wastes which most urgently require checking vary widely in character and amount. The most repreh ...

The Roots of the Conservation Movement, 1890–1919 83 intelligent minds in every part of this country, and giving form to a natio ...

84 The Environmental Debate contractor must increase the number of his wagons from nine to thirteen and from thirteen to seven- ...