Renewable resource policy : the legal-institutional foundations

Adams, David A. (David Arthur) 1931- (Author).

Summary: Renewable Resource Policy is a comprehensive volume covering the history, laws, and important national policies that affect renewable resource management. The author traces the history of renewable natural resource policy and management in the United States, describes the major federal agencies and their functions, and examines the evolution of the primary resource policy areas.

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ISBN: 1559632259
ISBN: 9781559632256
ISBN: 1559632267
ISBN: 9781559632263
Physical Description: print
xv, 557 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1993.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ch. 1. Ancient Foundations. The Bible. Roman Law. Magna Carta -- Ch. 2. Our Constitutional Government. Background. The Constitution. The Bill of Rights. Common Law and Other Legal Principles -- Ch. 3. The Public Domain. Early Land Tenure Systems. The New Republic. Federal Landownership -- Ch. 4. Grazing Lands. Free Land, Competition, and Conflict. The Coming of Regulation. Implementing the System. A Word about Powell. Closing the Frontier: The Taylor Grazing Act. Grazing Fees on Public Land. The National Grasslands -- Ch. 5. Forestlands and National Forests. Reserves. Preserves or Managed Forests? A Word about Pinchot. A Permanent Home. Forests in the East. Forests for Everyone. Forest Management Outside the National Forests. Persistent Problems -- Ch. 6. Outdoor Recreation and the National Parks. Yosemite: The Beginnings? A Word about Olmsted. Yellowstone, the First "National Park" Toward a National Park System. A Word about Mather and Albright. The Eastern National Parks. The CCC Days. Mission 66. The Modern National Park System. Outdoor Recreation -- Ch. 7. The Nation's Wildlife and the National Wildlife Refuge System. A National Perspective. A Word about Leopold. Wildlife on Federal Land. Enforcing Federal Law. Animal Control. Research and Management. Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species. The National Wildlife Refuge System -- Ch. 8. Wilderness. Early Rumblings. A Word about Marshall. Toward a National Wilderness System. The Act and the System. Toward a Bigger and Better System. RARE II -- and Beyond. Wilderness in Other Agencies -- Ch. 9. Soil Conservation. Bennett's Crusade. Internecine Warfare. The Districts: Governments within Governments. The Other Part of the Story. Accommodation. National Land Use Planning: You Can't Win 'Em All. Achievements -- Ch. 10. Water Law. Tidelands, Streambeds, and Shores. The Waters Within. Littoral and Maritime Considerations -- Ch. 11. Federal Water Resource Development. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Bureau of Reclamation (BuRec). The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The Soil Conservation Service (SCS). The River Basin Concept. Benefits and Costs. What of Tomorrow? -- Ch. 12. Water Resource Protection. Navigation. Water and Wetlands -- Ch. 13. Fisheries. Institutional Matters. Federal Aid to the States. Regulatory Functions -- Ch. 14. The Coastal Zone. Legislative Precursors. Within the Executive Branch. The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA). Amendments to the Act. The National Program -- Ch. 15. A National Environmental Policy. The Environmental Setting. Legislative History. Organizing the Bureaucracy. The Other Branch: Assistance from the Judiciary. NEPA and the EIS: Guts or Facade? Environmentalism and Reaganism -- Appendix A Federal Government Organization -- Appendix B Treaties and Federal Statutes Cited -- Appendix C Cases Cited.