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western movement, 22
Western Religions, 127
westward expansion, railroads and, 38–39
wetlands, 20, 309; coastal regions and, 152
White House, 68, 205; environmental policy in, 229
White, Lynn, 127
White population, 2
wilderness, 16–17, 147, 309; decline in, 87; life in,
9–10; preservation, goal of, 112–13; pristine
beauty and, 35; unregulated, 33–34
Wilderness Act, 87, 112
Wilderness Society (1935), 87
wildlife, 309
Williamson Act, 125
Wilson, Edward O., 151, 166–67, 190
wind: competitive cost of, 246; power, 246
Wiroans Wingina, 9
woodcocks, 33
wooded grounds, 66
Wood, John, 11
woodlands, 68
woods, 146; consumption of, 94; excessive amount of,
14; felling of, 50
workforce, 22
World Trade Organization, 222, 261
World War II, 86, 88, 150, 158, 244
WWS, 244–45
Wyoming, 86Y
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental
studies, 247
Yellowstone National Park (1872), 56–57
Yergin, Daniel, 259–61
Yosemite National Park, 77
Yo-Semite valley, 52
Young, Don, 224
Young, Lawrence, 160–61Z
Zahnizer, Howard, 60
zero emission vehicle (ZEV), 185, 187–88
zero waste resolution, 230–32
Zero Waste Strategic Plan, 231
ZEV. See zero emission vehicle
zone laws, 91
zoning: laws, 90; land, 98; legislative classification
for, 91; ordinance, 90, 91; regulations, 88, 225