Who am I?
I founded the Sierra Club and wrote The Mountains of California.
Who is John Muir?
This recycled item can make a carpet, a ski jacket, or a t-shirt.
What is a plastic bottle?
The fresh water below the Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
This law provides for the protection of threatened and endangered plants and animals.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This STATE agency focuses on wildlife protection and management.
What is the PA Game Commission?
What is April 22nd?
I researched the effects of DDT and other chemicals on the environment. I was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Rachel Carson?
To reuse materials such as glass, aluminum, steel, and plastic to make new items is called this.
What is recycling?
The watershed that includes PA, DC, DE, MD, NY, VA, and WV.
What is the Chesapeak Bay Watershed?
This FEDERAL law regulates discharges and pollutants into waterways.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This organization manages over 4500 acres of parland in York County.
What is the York County Parks?
A state park in York County is named for this conservationist.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
I painted, catalogued, and described many birds that live in North America.
Who is John J. Audubon?
This is the number of times an aluminum can can be recycled.
What is infinitely?
What is 15,000 miles?
This STATE law laid the groundwork for water quality standards.
What is the PA Clean Streams Act?
The Resource Recover Center is part of this organization.
What is the York County Solid Waste Authority?
This organization promotes the wise use of land, water, soil, and is the current lead for the York County Envirothon.
What is the York County Conservation District?
I am known as the "father of wildlife management".
Who is Aldo Leopold?
The number of plastic straws used in the US every day.
What is 500 million?
The three major stormwater runoff pollutants.
What are phosphorus, nitrogen, and sediment?
Part of the Pollution Reduction Act, this refers to the practices that reduce hazardous substances from being released prior to recycling or disposal.
What is source reduction?
This was the lead agency monitoring the meltdown of the Unit 2 Reactor at Three Mile Island.
What is the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This STATE agency protects aquatic resources.
What is the PA Fish and Boat Commission?
I am a biographer and author. An organization that bears my name used to be the home of the York County Envirothon.
Who is Izaak Walkton?
Placing items in a recycling container that hope are recyclable but are not.
What i aspirational recycling?
The goal of the York County Clean Water Action Plan is to reduce nitrogen by this much by 2025.
What is 4 million pounds of nitrogen?
This was the result of the Clean Water Act.
What is the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program?
A small group of citizens appointed by a municipality to assist in environmental matters.
What is an Environmental Advisory Council (EAC)?
A collection system in which many types of recyclables are collected in the same container and separated later.
What is single stream recycling?