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- Requires permits and fees for the use of federal grazing lands and placed limits on the number of livestock that could be grazed
- Taylor Grazing Act
- Authorized the gvt to protect undeveloped tracts of public land as a part of the nat'l wilderness system...
- Wilderness Act, 1964
- Directs forest service to give equal consideration to outdoor recreation, range, timber...
- Mult Use Sustained Yield Act
- Mandates that certain selected rivers of the Nation which..possess remarkable scenic, recreational.. cultural.. values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition.
- Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968
- Protects scenic and historic hiking trails in the Nat'l trails system
- National Trails System Act
- To preserve, protect, develop and restore resources of the nation's coastal zone
- Nat'l Coastal Zone Management Act
- Application of forestry practices to gvt-owned forests in the us
- Forest Reserves Management act
- Requires Federal agencies to develop resource management plans on lands affected by their actions
- Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Act
- Gave the Bureau of Land Management its first real authority to manage the public land under its control
- Fed Land policy and Management Act
- Allowed clear-cutting if it was judged necessary by the Forest Service; trees could be cut down in old age, with permission
- Nat'l Forest Management Act
- Created the soil and water conservation program within the dept of natural resources to promote soil and water conservation by preventing erosion
- soil and water conservation act
- required relcamation standards, performance bonds, mandatory restoration on coal lands abandoned before aug 1977
- Surface Mining Control and Reclamation act
- unlawful unless by permit to take native animals or to hurt/introduce species into antarctica
- Antarctic Conservation act
- prohibits commercial activities...in congressionally designated areas
- Endangered American Wilderness Act
- provides for a right of access to non-federally owned land and to preserve scenic/geolog values of natural landscapes....alaska
- Alaskan Nat'l Interest Lands Conservation Act
- designated undeveloped coastal barrier islands.......
- Coastal barrier resources act
- allowed lower commodity price and imcome supports and established a dairy herd buyout program
- food security act