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• Homework 3 now online. Due April 8.
• Comments
• Discussion section reading Food Miles
• Homework 2 Memo 1 will be returned in
  discussion section.
• Exams will be returned in class on Friday.

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Obama just keeps rolling em out.

• EPA Presses Obama To Regulate Warming Under Clean
  Air Act
• By Juliet Eilperin, Tuesday, March 24, 2009
• The Environmental Protection Agency's new
  leadership, in a step toward confronting global
  warming, submitted a finding that will force the
  White House to decide whether to limit greenhouse
  gas emissions under the nearly 40-year-old Clean
  Air Act.

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Obama just keeps rolling em out.

• EPA will review mountaintop permitting's impact
  on water quality
• U.S. EPA halted permitting for mountaintop
  mining today and announced a review of the
  effects of those projects on water quality and
  aquatic life. Exerting its authority under the
  Clean Water Act, EPA notified the lead federal
  permitting agency, the Army Corps of Engineers,
  yesterday that it planned to review permitting
  for new coal mining operations in West Virginia
  and Kentucky.
• Which section of the CWA is this?

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• Environmentalists in a Clash of Goals
  Environmental groups trying to protect
  wilderness areas are battling other
  environmental groups working to create renewable
  energy sources like solar or wind plants.

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Todays class

• U.S. Forest Service
• Bureau of Land Management
• What can we learn from these?

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Federal lands, cont.

• Federal lands are held in 5 systems
• National Forests
• National Parks
• Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands
• Wildlife Refuges
• Wilderness Areas

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U.S. Forest Service

• 1897 First National Forest
• 1905 Forest Service created.
• National Forests in the Eastern U.S. were
  purchased under the Weeks Act (1911).
• What are the National Forests for?
• Conservation vs. Preservation
• Pinchot vs. Muir

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Coined the term conservation ethic
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Goat Rocks Wilderness Area, Gifford Pinchot
National Forest
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U.S. Forest Service

• Conservation won out.
• Early focus on timber.
• Small communities dependent on timber supply.
• Why is it in the Department of Agriculture?
• (Recent discussion of moving it to Dept of
  Interior)
• What it does now

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U.S. Forest Service, cont.

• Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act of 1960
• 1. Multiple Use To manage and utilize the
  national forest's renewable resources in the best
  way to meet the needs of the people.
• National Forests were to be managed to provide
  five services

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Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act

• Five purposes for the National Forests
• Outdoor recreation
• Range
• Timber
• Watershed
• Wildlife
• Why are these listed explicitly in the Act?
• What else do you notice?
• Why was this Act revolutionary?

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• 2. Sustained Yield.
• To achieve and maintain a high level of output
  in perpetuity from the national forest's
  resources and services in a way that will not
  impair productivity.

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Forest Service, cont.

• Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act (1960)
• Applies only to the Forest Service.
• Revolutionary
• A bit schizophrenic

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Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act, cont.

• Applies only to the Forest Service
• Revolutionary, if a bit schizophrenic
• Does not solve all our problems, of course.
• Multiple uses in all areas, or different areas
  dedicated to different uses?
• Uses still compete. Tradeoffs necessary.

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Forest Service Other policies

• National Forest Management Act of 1976
• What was happening to natural resources in
  mid-1970s? (You know this.)
• Monongahela even-aged controversy
• Required Forest plans.
• In this case, these did have an effect. Why?
• Greater role for public participation
• Changing uses of the National Forests - 2009

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Bureau of Land Management
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Bureau of Land Management

• Set up in 1946
• What issue was in the publics mind?
• Issue Grazing management
• Multiple use mandate came much later
• Next class Grazing multiple use controversies