Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American LifeBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M05 30 - 237 pages Americans during the twentieth-century became more disconnected from the environment and nature than ever before. More Americans lived in cities rather than on farms; they became ever more reliant on technology to interact with the world around them and with each other. Perhaps paradoxically, the twentieth-century also became the period in which environmental issues played an ever-increasing role in politics and public policy. Why is this so? Perhaps because, despite what many people believe, nature and the environment remains central to everyone's daily life. Pollution, environmental degradation, urban sprawl, loss of wildlife and biodiversity - all of these issues directly impact how everyone - even city dwellers - live their lives. |
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... forest reserves , which trace their origin to an 1876 act of Congress that created the Forest Service . Based on the lessons of European nations , this act authorized the Department of Agriculture to hire a forestry agent who would ...
... Forest Service in 1905 , when the agency took over the forest reserves from the Department of the Interior's General Land Office . The agency was renamed the U.S. Forest Service and , ultimately , forest reserves were renamed national ...
... forests have also been impacted by related environmental legislation . The 1964 Wilderness Act verified many years of Forest Service reservations of such lands . Under the Land and Water Fund Conservation Act of 1965 the agency has been ...