Federal Law that focuses on reducing the amount of pollution, this includes source reduction.
What is Pollution Prevention Act
100
This agency is responsible for managing wildlife, protecting wildlife, managing wildlife habitats, and providing information and education
What is PA Game Commission
100
Acquires, preserves, and manages parkland and offers recreational and educational opportunities.
What is York County Dept. of Parks and Recreation
100
The Authority was established in
What is 1971
100
Father of Wildlife Management
Who is Aldo Leopold
200
State Law that preserves and improves the purity of water in the Commonwealth.
What is PA Clean Streams Law
200
This agency has existed for over 100 years. It enforces hunting and trapping laws.
What is PA Game Commission
200
Provides assistance to farmers, but also residents by promoting the maintenance, improvement and wise use of land, water, soil, and other natural resources
What is York County Conservation District
200
The purpose of the authority
What is to ensure the adequate and proper disposal of all municipal solid waste generated in York County
200
Founder of the Sierra Club
Who is John Muir
300
Federal law that established basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the US
What is The Clean Water Act
300
This agency maintains and preserves state parks, manages state forest land, provides information on state's ecological and geological resources.
What is PA Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR)
300
This group is devoted to assisting residents with their natural resource and environmental concerns.
What is York County Conservation District
300
No matter where you live in York County, your trash goes to this center.
What is York County Resource Recovery Center
300
Published Audubon's Birds of America
Who is John J. Audubon
400
Federal Law that provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals, as well as the habitats they are found in.
What is Endangered Species Act
400
This agency's goals are to protect, conserve, and enhance all aquatic resources, provide protection, advocate safe use of PA aquatic resources, and provide unpowered boat permits
What is PA Fish and Boar Commission (PFBC)
400
Mission is to enhance the quality of community life, acting as a steward of the environment. It maintains over 4,300 acres for our enjoyment.
What is York County Dept. of Parks and Recreation.
400
Explain how the center is a waste-to-energy facility
It burns garbage in accordance to strict env. standards. It becomes fuel for heat boilers that make steam. The steam powers a turbine and generator that produces electricity.
400
Wrote Silent Spring
Who is Rachel Carson
500
This was the first environmental law in the country that brought industrial wastes under legal control.
What is PA Clean Waters Law
500
This agency was established in the late 1800's and is one of the oldest and most effective conservation agencies in the nation.
What is PA Fish and Boat Commission
500
Provides educational opportunities like support for the York County Envirothon
What is York County Conservation District.
500
Name two ways the authority conserves
Curbside recycling
Yard Waste and Composting
Local regulations
Stormwater Management
Christmas Tree Recycling