This act stands to protect wooded areas against logging to preserve nature and wildlife.
What is Forest Reserve Act
100
This act also known as Magnuson Fishery and Conservation and Management act established Regional Fishery Management councils consisting of Federal and state officials.
What is Fisheries Conservation and Management Act
100
This act was designed to protect human health and the environment from waste hazards.
What is the Resource and Recovery Act
100
Protects the native mammals, birds, and plants within their ecosystems this act applies to every person.
What is the Antarctica Act
200
This act was passed because of Gifford Pinchot's efforts in the division of forestry to manage the forests. This transferred the 63 million acres of forest reserves to what is now the united states forest service to use for the greatest good for the longest time.
What is the Transfer Act
200
This act regulates the “trafficking of illegal wildlife, fish, and plants” and was expanded in 2008 to include more plant species and plant products.
What is the Lacey Act
200
This act ensure Americans that they will have safe drinking water and oversees making sure that all companies are following the regulations for water quality.
What is the safe drinking water act
200
This Act was passed to monitor the commercial and national defense uses of atomic energy. Government concerns included radiation hazards and the disposal of radioactive waste.
What is the Toxic Substance Act
200
This act stated that the federal agencies had to protect and preserve natural and man made landmarks.
What is Antiquities Act
300
This act is a federal law that authorizes long term planning by the US Forest Service, to be able to ensure future supply of timber and other forest goods, while in the same part maintaining a healthy environment.
What is Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
300
An international treaty to prevent species from becoming endangered or extinct because of the international trade.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Act (CITES)
300
This act provides funds and matching grants to federal, state and local governments for the acquisition of land and water, and easements on land and water, for the benefit of all Americans.
What is the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act
300
This act was passed to regulate the distribution, sale, and use of pesticides. It also requires that the EPA register all pesticides.
What is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
300
The goal of this act is to have federal agencies act as responsible stewards of our nation's resources when their actions affect historic properties.
What is the National Historic Preservation Act
400
This act was passed in 1924 to protect forest lands, reforest areas that had been cleared, and to extend National Forests.
What is the Clark-McNary Act
400
This act prohibits shooting or attempting to shoot or harassing any bird, fish, or other animal from aircraft except for certain specified reasons, including protection of wildlife, livestock, and human life as authorized by a Federal or State issued license or permit.
What is the Airborne Hunting Act
400
This 1972 legislation put a moratorium on the import, export, and sale of any marine mammal with the purpose of protection all marine mammals within the waters of the United States.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)
400
Also known as the Farm Bill, it gave $288 billion to agriculture subsidy and the continuation of pursuing energy, conservation, nutrition, and rural development.
What is the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act
400
The purpose of this act was to preserve specific rivers with outstanding recreational, natural, and cultural values for the enjoyment of future generations.
What is the wild and scenic rivers act
500
The purpose of this act is to administer the NATIONAL FOREST to be used for outdoor recreation, range, watershed, timber, and wildlife and fish purposes.
What is the Multiple Use Act - Sustained Yield Act - MUSY
500
This act was put in place in 1992 to help protect exotic bird species from international trade
What is the Wild Bird Conservation Act
500
This act provides for the management of the nation’s coastal resources, including the Great Lakes. The goal is to “preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance the resources of the nation’s coastal zone.”
What is the Coastal zone management Act
500
This act generally wants to move the US focus to renewable energy, this includes increasing efficiency on products, buildings and vehicles, it also seeks to promote research on greenhouse gas capture and storage methods.
What is the Energy independence and Security Act
500
This act states that specific parts of federal land in central Idaho are wilderness areas and components of national wilderness preservation systems and specified portions of Sawtooth national Recreation Area is to be wilderness study areas.
What is the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act