6conservation

=Period 6=

The Problems

 * Forests were being steadily cut down. (By 1900 only 200,000 acres out of an original 800,000 acres were left standing.)


 * Also where mining is concerned, people were mining coal without any regard to the surrounding environment. The rich soil was being used way too much.


 * Another way of mining was hydraulic mining, which was among the worst of the ways to mine and it was being used everywhere.


 * Oil fields were sprouting up everywhere, and the natural excess gas was escaping freely and without any concern.


 * One of the most prominent problems was “**pollution**” of all sorts, mostly because the big business men thought nothing of it. They dumped garbage and other harmful waste products in the near by rivers and streams as well.


 * Also, nothing was being considered of the wildlife. There habitats were being destroyed all over the place.


 * Another big issue was the __**overuse of resources**__. With the population growing all of the resources were being used up.


 * The overall general problem was the general public did not think of conservation.

The Solutions

 * There was an idea to help the timeberlands by the National Forest Bureau. The idea gave the power to the president to withdraw the timberlands from sale.


 * The public needed to be informed about the toll pollution was taking on the environment. Previously, the environment was considered an unlimited resource. The people simply didn’t think about preserving the area around them.


 * State governors must attend a conference with other governors and the President and talk about the issue. Scientists and reporters would also be invited to publicize the event.


 * A state and federal commission was needed to keep a tab on pollution.


 * More state parks and reservations would be created to protect the wildlife and our nations forests.


 * Less land should be sold.


 * Laws needed to be enacted to protect wildlife and forests. Fishing and hunting should be strictly followed.

The Images


This is a picture of the __**Sierra Club**__ logo. This club was founded in 1892 by __**John Muir**__ in order to protect the wild places of the earth, and to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources.

This is deforestation, when trees get cut down for lumber. This was one of the many problems that conservationists had to face. Unfortunatly this was happening way to much.

Yep! pollution was a great big issue back then. With all the big factories coming out, there was more and more pollution building up as well, making for even worse smells and living conditions.

The Primary Sources
The Yellostone Park Protection Act (1894) banned all hunting in Yellowstone National Park. The following is an excerpt of the act.

The tract of land in the States of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and described as follows, to wit, commencing at the junction of Gardiner's River, with the Yellowstone River, and running east to the meridian passing ten miles to the eastward of the most eastern point of Yellowstone Lake; thence south along said meridian to the parallel of latitude passing ten miles south of the most southern point of Yellowstone Lake; thence west along said parallel to the meridian passing fifteen miles west of the most western point of Madison Lake; thence north along said meridian to the latitude of the junction of the Yellowstone and Gardiner's Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people; and all persons who locate, or settle upon, or occupy any part of the land thus set apart as a public park, except as provided in section 22 of this title, shall be considered trespassers and removed therefrom.

From Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress Dec. 3, 1907

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

. . .The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life. . ..As a nation we not only enjoy a wonderful measure of present prosperity but if this prosperity is used aright it is an earnest of future success such as no other nation will have. The reward of foresight for this nation is great and easily foretold. But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. For the last few years, through several agencies, the government has been endeavoring to get our people to look ahead and to substitute a planned and orderly development of our resources in place of a haphazard striving for immediate profit...

The Citations
 * __Pollution__. __Welcome to California (Air Resources Board)__. Air Resources Board. 21 Feb. 2007 [|www.arb.ca.gov/ba/omb/50thfinal/sld002.htm].


 * animation. __Sierra Club__Sierra Club. __Sierra club__Sierra club. Sierra Club. 21 Feb. 2007 http://www.sierraclub.org/.


 * unknown. __A Pile of Trees Cut Down on the Elk Point Two Timber Sale__A Pile of Trees Cut Down on the Elk Point Two Timber Sale. __Enviornment News Service__Enviornment News Service. Enviornment. 21 Feb. 2007 .

"Yellowstone National Park Protection Act (1894)" American History. ABC-CLIO. [|http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com] (accessed February 21, 2007).

"The Conservation of Natural Resources- From Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress Dec. 3, 1907" PBS [](accessed February 22nd, 2007)