The Big 4
The department in charge of 29 different agencies, including the US Forest Service.
What is the Department of Agriculture?
A federal law enacted in 1970 to strengthen protections for the environment. It requires federal agencies to incorporate Environmental Impact Statements in their decision making processes to assess the environmental effects of their proposed actions or decisions. (Abbreviation AND Full name)
What is NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act?
The year was Yellowstone was established as a National Park.
What was 1872?
This agency falls under the Federal Government and Department of the Interior which develops and manages hydropower facilities and water resources.
What is the Bureau of Reclimation
The two rivers that flow into the Colorado near Glen Canyon Dam.
What are the Green River and San Juan River?
The department that protects and manages the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage; provides scientific and other information about those resources; and honors its trust responsibilities or special commitments to American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and affiliated Island Communities. Includes various agencies including NPS, USGS, USFWS, BLM, and BIA
What is the Department of the Interior?
A document detailing the impacts that a proposed project or action will have on the environment. This is required by NEPA for any major federal projects or actions that have the possibility of significantly impairing the environment. (Abbreviation AND Full name)
What is an EIS, Environmental Impact Statement?
This land designation was Created by Antiquities act of 1906 under the National Park Service and allow designated by acts of Congress or Presidential authority.
What is a National Monument?
This is the land designation of Lake Powell and the surrounding lands.
National Recreation Area
This is an organization working to restore and steward public lands resources of the cottonwood canyons.
What is Cottonwood Canyons Foundation or Save our Canyons?
This agency helped congress create the 1973 Endangered Species Act creating funding to save bald eagles and other species from extinction. Wildlife refuge systems and collecting data on endangered species are some of the ways they serve our outdoors.
What is the Us Fish and Wildlife Service?
This law is the guideline for how Bureau of Land Management manages its land. First put into law in 1976, it replaced the Homestead Act and forever changed how federal land is used and protected.
Federal Land Policy and Management Act, or FLPMA
In 1803, the purchase of 529.9 million acres of land, which is 22.9% of US land area.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The architect of Glen Canyon Dam and others across the West in the 1950s and 1960s.
Who was Floyd Dominy?
If you're interested in an internship serving Utah's public lands, this division would be a good one to pursue.
Utah Division of Recreation
More kinds of fossils can be found on this land designation than any other type of state or federal land.
BLM
This law was signed in 1964 and creates the strictest form of land protection.
What is the Wilderness Act?
Prior to it being called the US Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot was in charge of this agency. Under this authority, he traveled to the Cottonwood Canyons and saw the degradation of forests and set to replant the hillsides.
What was the US Forest Reserve?
These are one type of native fish in the Grand Canyon.
What are humpback chub, razorback sucker, Colorado pikeminnow, or Bonytail.
Katie Lee named her motor boat this in 1963.
What is Screwdriver, but written Screwd River
Along with other U.S. cavalry soldiers, ______were called to patrol the new parks and make sure the wildlife remained untouched. The all-Black regiment served after the Civil War and fought on the Western frontier during the American Indian Wars. They protected against poachers and put out forest fires in Sequoia and Yosemite.
They were also some of the first to wear the wide-brimmed hats that park rangers wear today. It's the same type of hat that Smokey the Bear wears!
Buffalo Soliders
This act is abbreviated MUSYA.
What is the Multiple-Use and Sustained Yield Act,
(which is meant to create harmonious and coordinated management that doesn’t impair the productivity of the land and allows use in the combination that will best meet the needs of the people.)
This phrase has had large implications for land and water development through this history of the American West.
What is "first in time, first in right?"
The elevation at which Glen Canyon is considered "deadpool", and can no longer flow through the dam and out into Grand Canyon.
What is 3,370'?
This law makes it a federal crime to “import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce any wildlife that was taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law or regulation of any State or in violation of any foreign law.” It is also illegal to mislabel wildlife shipments, bring injurious species into the country, and import live wildlife under inhumane conditions and bans trading illegally sourced plants or plant products, including timber, wood, and paper. (Law and Year)
What is The Lacey Act of 1900?