Index 339
international law, principles of, 145
international regulation, 162
interrelatedness of living things, 102
Interstate Highway System, 244
invasive species, 307
ionizing radiations, 117
irreversible commitments, 133
irrigable lands, 64–65
irrigation development, 81
irrigation systems, 207
Isaiah, c. 725 B.C.E., 4–5
islands: Blackbeard, 22; East Coast barrier, 265;
Grover, 22; Rock, 35; Santa Rosa, 23;
sugar, 28
Italiano, Mike, 239
Izaak Walton League (1922), 87
J
Jackson, Andrew, 22
Jackson, Wes, 255
Jacobson, Mark Z., 244–47
Jarrett, Henry, 112
Jefferson, Thomas, 21–25, 28–29, 99
Johnson, Lyndon, 114
The Jungle (Sinclair), 73
jus naturale, 13
K
Kallet, Arthur, 95
Kalm, Peter, 18, 20
Kangilernata, 282
Kasich, John, 278
Kempthorne, Dirk, 225–26
Kennedy, John F., 123, 233;
administration, 114
Keystone Pipeline System, 255
Keystone XL Pipeline, 255–59
Kirby, Carl, 252
“Kissimmeem Ditch,” 164–65
Kissimmee River-Lake Okeechobee-Everglades
Coordinating Council (KOECC), 165
Klein, Naomi, 255, 261–63
Kneiss, Sharon, 274
KOECC. See Kissimmee River-Lake Okeechobee-
Everglades Coordinating Council
Kohler Act, 89
Kolbert, Elizabeth, 280–83
Kyoto Protocol, 189, 193, 194, 199–200, 272
L
labor: and industry, 13; laws and environmental
regulation, 150; property and, 15–16
Lake Eleanor, 77
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association, 82
Lament of the Forest, 42
land, 232; abundance of cheap, 22; agricultural,
65, 158; of arid regions, 64–66; care of, 28–29;
community, 16, 103; conservationist-minded, 157;
customary, 223; despoliation of, 103; development,
60, 88, 107; ethic, 103, 122; with Europeans, 21;
federal leadership in, 221; forest, 61, 94; immensity
of, 23; Indians and, 35–36; irrigable, 64–65; law
of, 16; law system, 75; management, 18; and
moveables, 19; non-irrigible, 65–66; ownership, 21;
past utilization of, 165; prairie ranch, 119; as private
property, 60; reclamation, 308; and resources,
caring for, 22–23; semiarid, intensive cultivation
of, 49; swamp and overflow, 46; treating, 60; and
undiscovered resources, 70; in urban communities,
91; and water resources, 211; zoning, 98
landfill, 308
law: bird protection, 62; due process of, 90;
environmental, 124, 247; of market place, 120; of
public economy, 59; and regulations, 91; rigorous
execution of, 59; of self-preservation, 84
Law of the Sea, 162
“Laws of Ecology,” 148–49
leadership, 22, 108, 247; in land use planning, 221
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED), 239–41; certification system, 240–41
Leatherstocking, 33
LEED. See Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design
legal economic system, 141
legal rights for natural objects, 141–42
legislative power, 59
legislators, 248
Leinberger, Christopher B., 249–51
Leopold, Aldo, 88, 103, 122, 268
Lewis, Meriwether, 23, 31–32
liberty, 14
Life and Death of a Salt Marsh (Teal), 130
life expectancy, 67
Limicolae, 62
‘limits to industrial growth’, 105–6, 270
Linnaeus, Carl, 39
Linnean Society of London, 39
Lipman, Tim, 246
LIRR. See Long Island Rail Road
Little Tennessee River, 145