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Details Title: apes Description: Chapter 2 Total Flash Cards: 22 Created: 01/12/2008 18:17:56	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Who wrote Life in The Woods about his observations of nature in Mass. ? Definition Henry David Thoreau Term Who published Man and Nature to show people that resources must be conserved? Definition George Perkins Marsh Term Who was a geologist and naturalist who founded the Sierra Club in 1892? Definition John Muir Term Who wrote Silent Spring about the dangers of using pesticides? Definition Rachel Carson Term Who related the growing human population to the increase in pollution? Definition Barry Commoner Term Did Theodore Roosevelt support or oppose environmentalism? Definition support Term Did Herbert Hoover support or oppose environmentalism? Definition Oppose Term Did Calvin Coilidge support or oppose environmentalism? Definition Oppose Term Did FDR support or oppose environmentalism? Definition Support Term Did Richard Nixon support or oppose environmentalism? Definition Support Term Did Jimmy Carter support or oppose environmentalism? Definition Support Term Did Ronald Reagan support or oppose environmentalism? Definition oppose Term Did George H. W. Bush support or oppose environmentalism? Definition oppose Term Did Bill Clinton support or oppose environmentalism? Definition Support Term Did George W. Bush support or oppose environmentalism? Definition oppose Term What law allows the president to protect areas of interest as national monuments? Definition Antiquities Act of 1906 Term What law protected land to be used for recreational purposes that do not degrade the environment? Definition National Park Service Act Term What law allowed 2 mill people to obtain work by restoring degraded environments? Definition Civilian Conservation Corp Term What law was established in 1980 by Jimmy Carter to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites? Definition Superfund Term What law was established in 1970? Definition Environmental Protection Agency Term What law protects species in danger of extinction? Definition Endangered Species Act Term What law was the first real authority to manage public land? Definition Bureau of Land Management