Index 343
Prohibition of Diversions and Management and
Regulation of Withdrawals, 227–28
property: air and water, 134; appellee, 91;
commissioners of, 54; crops and, 93; of English
gentleman, 26; and labour, 15–16; notions of,
19; population and, 24–25; preservation and
improvement of, 52; private, 60; public, 60; rights
of, 19, 25, 89, 130; state of rights in, 90; transient,
19; unequal distribution of, 25
protecting timber resources, 22
protectionism, 262
protesters, mobilization of, 255
protest movements, 117
Pruitt, Scott, 276
public domain, 80
Public Health Service, 117
public health/welfare, 67–68, 154; regulatory
organizations, 38
publici juris, 19
public interest, 143, 156–57
Public Lands Commission, 75
Public Law 91-604, 136
public proclamation, 69
public property, 60
public rights, 90
public transportation, 249–51
Public Utility Holding Company Act, 182
Puccinia sp., 207
Puleston, Dennis, 137–38
Pulliam, James W., 159–61
pumkins, corn and, 20
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, 68
Q
quadrupeds, senseless destruction of, 36
quality of life, economic growth and, 135
R
radical environmentalists, 105, 158
radioactive wastes, 153
railroads and westward expansion, 38–39
Rallidae, 62
rationalization, 112; industrial, 170
Ray, Dixy Lee, 151, 152, 173, 178–79
Ray, John, 16–17, 39
Reagan administration, 150, 153
Reagan, Ronald, 79, 150, 187
Reclamation Act, 64, 68, 72–73, 79–80
“reclamation fund,” 72
Reclamation Service, 75
recycling, 308; industry, 215; programs, development
of, 153
red-bay, 20
regional planning, 98
regulation, public, 57–58, 98
Rehnquist, William, 210–11
relative decoupling, 270
renewable energy, 158, 244, 262, 308
renewable resources, 308
Republican and Democratic administrations, 222
reservoirs, and Glen Canyon Dam, 147
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 216
resources: material, 104; policy, 88, 104–5; renewable
and nonrenewable, 111–12; technology in nuclear
age, 88
respiratory diseases, 248
restoration ecology, 308
Restriction on Hazardous Substances (ROHS), 215
“Revive & Restore” project, 268
Ribaut, Jean, 7
Richards, Ellen Swallow, 68, 74
rich mud, 20
Rifkin, Jeremy, 201–2
right civile, 13
rights of property, 25
Rignot, Eric, 282
Rio Declaration, 157, 191–92, 212
risk assessment, 163–64
Rivers and Harbors Act (1899), 68, 71
Riverside Bayview Homes, 210
Rock River, 35–36
Rocky Mountains, 21, 64, 70, 75, 187, 265
Roderick, Hilliard, 167–68
Rogers, Archibald, 64
ROHS. See Restriction on Hazardous Substances
Roman, Lauren, 215
Romantic movement, 40
romantic myth, of noble savage, 25–26
Romantics, 23
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 84, 87, 93–94
Roosevelt, Teddy, 68, 69, 88
Roosevelt, Theodore, 40, 64, 68, 69, 71–72, 75–77, 82, 93
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 3
Rowland, F. Sherwood, 169
Rudolphe, Thomas Mann, 28–29
rules and regulations, 208
runoff, 309
rural America, 93
rural electrification, 107
Rush, Benjamin, 22, 27–28