Forestry
Fish and Wildlife
Water
Resources
Pollutants
100
Enacted in 1891 by President Benjamin Harrison. Act designed to protect wooded areas against logging to preserve nature and wildlife.
What is Forest Reserve Act
100
Established 1974 this act ensures safe drinking water by introducing regulations for drinking water quality.
What is Clean Water Act
100
Established in 1974. This act authorizes long term planning by the US Forest Service to ensure a sustainable timber supply and other resources whilst maintaining a healthy environment.
What is Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resource Planning Act
200
Established in 1978. Provides funding, technical aids and fire prevention assistance in rural communities and non-Federal forests.
Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act
200
Regulates the trafficking of illegal wildlife, fish and plants.
What is Lacey Act
200
Established in 2001. Closely related to to the Safe Drinking Water Act. Main role is to stop the spread of Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
What is Drinking Water Protection Act
200
Act that enforces the restoration of the land enough to support what the land had supported before a mining project.
What is Surface Mining Control Act
200
Regulates the distribution, sale and use of pesticides.
What is Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
300
Passed in 1924. Act serves to protect forests and reforest areas that have been cleared, as well as extending National Forests.
What is Clark-McNary Act
300
An international treaty designed to prevent species from becoming extinct due to international trade.
What is Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Act
300
Act protects drinking water sources from toxic substances that may cause cancer or birth defects.
What is California Proposition 65
300
Designed to protect human health and the environment from waste hazards.
What is Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
300
Enacted in 1980. Designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous waste as well as accidents, spills and other forms of pollutants and contaminants released into the environment.
What is Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act.
400
Proposed by President George W. Bush in 2003. Aimed to reduce the amount of natural fuels found in forests to prevent the spread of wildfires.
What is Healthy Forest Initiative Act
500
Gives the government the ability to aid states in the protection and restoration of game fish
What is Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act (Dingell-Johnson Act)
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