Let's Get Wild
This is the date that the Lacey Act was set into place.
What is 1902?
This is the date that the Clean Air Act was created.
What is 1964?
This is the date that Cornell set up the first post-secondary major in forestry.
What is 1900?
These types of lands are untouched "wild" areas.
What are national wilderness areas?
This is another term for near extinction.
What is endangered?
This is the date that the Endangered Species Act occurred.
What is 1974?
This is the date that the Clean Water act was created.
What is 1973?
This is the date that Julia Butterfly Hill saved Redwood trees by stopping the Pacific Maxxam Lumber company from harvesting them.
What is 1998?
Our Wisconsin state agency is known as this.
What is the Department of Natural Resources?
This is the number one reason for a species becoming endangered and/or extinct.
What is habitat loss?
This is the date that the last Passenger Pigeon in the US died in the Cincinnati zoo.
What is 1915?
This is the date that over 5,000 people died in London due to smog.
What is 1954?
This is the date that the Sand County Almanac was finally published.
What is 1952?
These federal land areas attract several tourists and contain roads, concessions, bathrooms and other attractions.
What are national parks?
This is the act that created a federal excise tax on all hunting firearms, ammo, and supplies.
What is the Pittman-Robertson act?
This is the date that the Wilderness Act occurred.
What is 1965?
This is the date that the Exxon Valdez dumped millions of gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska.
What is 1990?
This is the date that the Everglades became a national park.
What is 1949?
This government agency regulates our native american reservations.
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
This is the federal agency that governs our National Forests and the US Forest Service.
What is the USDA?
This is the date that the detrimental effects of DDT were first noticed.
What is 1946?
This is the date that the US experienced the worst drought in history.
What is 1935?
This is the date that the Department of Interior was created.
What is 1851?
This government agency regulates endangered species and wildlife refuges.
What is the USFWS (US Fish and Wildlife Service)?
This organization regulates the arid federally owned lands of the western US.
What is the BLM (Bureau of Land Management)?