Roosevelt did not agree with Muir that all of the land should be closed off for wildlife because of the resources. Eighty million acres of that land was planned to be used for resources, and the rest is national forest. Most of the resources being preserved were trees, and trees are mainly used to build homes. Some forests were preserved while others were harvested of trees. Then, when the forest would have low amounts of trees, the preserved forest and the harvested forest will switch roles.
John Muir, a naturalist and preservation pioneer of nature took an ethical stand for land ethics when he shared his thoughts that all living things are equally important parts of the land, and animals and plants have as much right to live and survive as people do. In the 1600’s when Europeans began to settle in North America, there were 1037 million acres of forestland. Today, a little over 700 million acres in the United States is forestland—only thanks to preservation laws. In the 1800’s, that number of tress and forests decreased tremendously because expansion and progression recklessly exploited natural resources by clear-cutting forest to use wood for fuel and building supplies.
As these wildernesses were converted into farmland by the Americans, they would exacerbate the First Nation’s problems. They would drive away the animals and game that was necessary for their food, clothing, and fur trade. Once these independent
Any right thinking father earnestly desires and strives to leave his son both an untarnished name and a reasonable equipment for the struggle of life. So this Nation as a whole should earnestly desire and strive to leave to the next generation the national honor unstained and the national resources unexhausted. Such a policy will preserve soil, forests, water power as a heritage for the children and the children’s children of the men and women of this generation. The opinion of the Maine Supreme Bench sets forth unequivocally the principle that the property rights of the individual are subordinate to the rights of the community, and especially that the waste of wild timber land derived originally from the State. The Court says that there are two reasons why the right of the public to control and limit the use of private property is peculiarly applicable to property in land: First, such property is not the result of productive labor.
It opened the path for many court cases to reserve space for the Native Americans and created a tension between the Native Americans who did
Buffaloes and trees were killed and nature in the West Coast was not at all preserved. Frank H. Mayer, a buffalo hunter in the late 1800s, proclaimed, "A couple years before, it was nothing to see 5,000, 10,000 [buffaloes] in a day's ride. Now, if I saw 50, I was lucky. Presently all I saw was rotting red carcasses or bleaching white bones, we had killed the golden goose,"(Source 2, Document F) Mayer clearly expresses that every day, less buffalo were alive. They were being killed with every passing day and as a result, conflicts with Native Americas arose.
Preservationists frequently clashed with companies who saw the wilderness merely in terms of resources for production, or spaces for residential and commercial developments. Though Roosevelt was a passionate preservationist, he understood the necessity of conciliation between the generally split populous. His compromise was a conservation program that provided the regulated use of the nation’s wilderness. In 1905, Congress created the Forest Service, at the president’s advising, to manage the newly established federally owned forest reserves; he appointed fellow preservationist Gifford Pinchot as the head of the new agency.
America’s last great wilderness—The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—will be diminished if not saved. Believing that this area of land is magnificent, Jimmy Carter wants to help stop the progression of industrial facilities on this sacred land. In his foreword to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land, Jimmy Carter emphasizes the importance of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Carter builds a compassionate tone using diction, imagery, and anecdotes. Magnificent.
Additionally, Johnson signed the Wilderness Act in 1964, authorizing Congress to designate areas for wildlife, therefore preserving them. It continues to be managed and enforced by the four federal management agencies up to this
The Environmental, Economic, and Social Impact of the Wilderness Act of 1964 I have been asked to write a paper about the Environmental, Economic, and the Social Impact of the Wilderness Act of 1964. The Wilderness Act designated 9.1 million acres as wilderness and laid out a “long-term study process for additional designations.” (www.justice.gov)
In both articles,” The Last Wilderness Preserve” and “A New Land of Opportunity” the authors state their opinions on how human behavior and actions have impacted the vast land of Antarctica. They argue over if people should inherit the land or let it stay uninhabited by man. Even though people don’t inherit the land of Antarctica, we still have dramatic effects on the amazing environment, like global warming. Global warming is from all the pollution that is let off by trash, car emissions, and factories that are polluting the earth’s atmosphere. This terrible pollutions is melting the ice caps and snow that covers Antarctica.
On October 1, 1890 congress passed the law allowing Yosemite to become a member of the small national park family. The establishment of this park was transforming in a different sense than Yellowstone’s was. Being the huge tourist attraction it is, Yosemite served as a prime example of the potential negative impact of humans on nature. The many threats to nature, as a result of tourism, created great frustration within the general public. Two special figures decided to share their findings; Thomas King and Frederick Law wrote letters and captured photographs sharing the destruction Americans were inflicting on nature in Yosemite.
(Jacoby 21). Ultimately, this led Yellowstone National Park into a militarized state, which prohibited any Native Americans from entering what was once a remote spot for them to reside. Regardless of the negative impact that can be seen from conservation in the United States, there are still some positive impacts. One positive impact that we can analyze comes from the reading “New and Old Forestry” by S.P.
However once the green movement of the 1970’s struck, acts such as the National Environmental Policy Act (1970), Endangered Species Act (1973), and Federal Land Policy and Management Act (1976), to name a few, shook the agency to the core. The Forest Service went from an agency with few legal constraints to suddenly being immersed in them. The Forest Service not only had more restraints on what they could and could not do but now the public had the right to litigate the Forest Service if they felt the agency was in violation with these policies. These new legal constraints forced the agency to change how they were previously managing the national forest
Hunting in california is quite rough on people today it needs a stop so do something. I claim that people want a change but nothing happens so we need do something. Hunting is quite a good sport which is not rights laws and we need more.
