Forestry
Conservation
Game
Pollution
Other
100
Forest Reserve Act
This act created in 1891 by Benjamin Harrison stands to protect wooded areas against logging to preserve nature and wildlife.
100
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
This law was set in motion due to the amount of waste being created by the industrial age.
100
This act says that migratory birds and their habitat will be managed and kept up with so that these animals will not go extinct.
What is The Migratory Bird Treaty Act
100
This act is generally designed to fund 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 the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
100
This act established that archeological sites on public lands are important public resources.
What is the Antiquities Act
200
Transfer Act
This act transferred the 63 million acres of forest reserves to what is now the united states forest service under influence of Gifford Pinchot.
200
Lacey Act
This Act regulates the trafficking of illegal wildlife, fish, and plants.
200
This act requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years old or older to have a valid Federal hunting stamp.
What is The Migratory Bird Hunting Act 
200
The goal of this act was to protect the drinking water resources from toxic substances that may cause cancer and birth defects in humans.
What is California Proposition
200
This act is 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 was established in 1976 to protect our national forests from timber harvesting, manages renewable resources and states what chemicals may or may not be used on plants.
What is the National Forest Management Act (1976)
300
This act 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 the1974 Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
300
This act prohibits the ability to possess, sell, hunt, or trap Bald Eagles
What is the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (1940)
300
The purpose of this act is to ensure Americans that they will have safe drinking water, and oversees that all companies are following the regulations for water quality.
What is Clean Water Act
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 National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
400
This act focuses primarily on providing funds, technical and other assistance for fire prevention and control in rural communities and non-Federal forests and rural lands, implementing forestry incentive programs, the development and management of nonindustrial private forest lands, plus insect and disease control in these areas.
What is the 1978 Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act
400
This act established a fishery conservation zone effective March 1, 1977.
What is Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976
400
This act now allows duck stamps to be issued electronically.
What is Permanent Electronic Duck Stamp Act of 2013
400
The purpose of this act is trying to stop the spread of diseases and toxic in the drinking water system.
What is the 2015 Drinking Water Protection Act
400
This act requires the operator of the mine to restore the land enough to be able to support what the land had supported in the past.
What is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
500
This act was made to reduce the natural fuels that are in the forests and also actions to prevent wide spread wild fires with prevention methods.
What is Healthy Forests Initiative 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 forces all agencies to keep conservation and use of natural resources in mind every action they take.
What is National Environmental Policy Act
500
This act created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres of Federal land.
What is Wilderness Act
500
The purpose of this act is to provide more funding for wildlife conservation, hunter’s education, shooting project, and other related programs by placing an excise tax on all wholesale prices for firearms and ammunition.
What is the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act aka Pittman Robertson Act
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