Conservation Land Trusts

The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority had positive impacts on work and the environment during the great depression. The bill proposing the Civilian Conservation Corps was voted on and passed on March 31, 1933 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In addition, the Tennessee Valley Authority was formed May 18 of this same year to work on easing environmental strains in the Tennessee Valley. Roosevelt’s goal when he became president was to improve the economy and environment, and to help raise America from the depression. When he had been governor of New York he had created a public works program similar to the TVA on a smaller scale and it had been met with success. As a result he was encouraged to expand

National Trust Company has several facilities among them the 255,000 hectares of land, castle, mills, forest, pubs and goldmines. The above facilities enable the organization to diversify its services hence meeting the customer’s needs and expanding its profit margin (PAHL & RICHTER 2007).

The national trust was founded in 1895. It protects over 350 historic houses, gardens and ancient monuments. This organisation is a charity which does not rely funds from government but depends on membership fees and donations from members.

With the Forest Act many other acts protecting the Earth’s resources sprung up as well. All of the acts that were passed restricted important resources from being wasted and blatantly used for company production areas. These acts, enlisted in terms of the government, would allow the president to choose areas in which resources could always exist and couldn’t be overused. The areas chosen would include places with plentiful natural assets and a large range of land. This early protection against the act of overharvesting, lead to people being able to

One of America’s greatest conservation achievements is the Wilderness Act of 1964. Fifty-two years later, this act has a legacy to withhold. A legacy that meant something in 1964 and remains the same today: to protect unspoiled land. Even though, through this act millions of acres have been conserved, the key word is continue. That is why America should pass laws to preserve the wilderness before developers spoil them.

In June 1864 the Yosemite Land Grant was signed by Abraham Lincoln, which deeded 39,000 acres of the Mariposa Big Tree Grove and Yosemite Valley to the State of California (Hawken 40). It was an unprecedented piece of legislation, having almost universal support from private business, environmentalists and Congress. Sparked largely by the de-barking of “The Mother of the Forest”, one of the oldest sequoias in Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove, several years earlier (Hawken 39). The Yosemite Land Grant was the first piece of legislation founded on the principle that nature needed to be preserved and protected from humans (Hawken 40). After nearly a century of clearing many forests on the East Coast, affording protection to land on the West Coast was a novel concept.

In efforts to restore the land back to normal, the federal government along with other agencies, created new rules and regulations to help improve the rehabilitation of the land. Some adjustments included: imposing that farmers plant trees and grass to anchor the soil, to plow and terrace in contour patterns to hold rainwater, and also was the emergence of allowing certain parts of the farmland to lie fallow each year so the soil there can regenerate. The government also purchased 11.3 million acres of land to so that the land would not be used for farming and other agriculture processes.

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the ideals of conservation, protection, and preservation became embedded within the development industry. Intensive periods of growth, urban and suburban sprawl, coupled with the surge and education regarding environmental liability took a toll upon the United States’ national resources. Throughout this period in the Unite States, the preservation movement developed into a network of National Parks throughout the country, in addition to laying down the groundwork for the conception of preservation to be adapted within other fields. One type of a historic site, which is arguably deserving of conservation, and frequently encountered throughout the United States are battlefields, in particular

An important part of this model was to divide the Champion lands into separate but complementary ownerships on the basis of ecological values and basic management purposes: areas with the greatest ecological significance would be publicly owned and protected, with timber harvesting precluded on substantial acreages to allow natural processes like forest succession to occur unimpeded; and the most productive timber lands, with fewer special ecological values, would be kept in private ownership with a requirement that they be managed for long-term sustainable forestry. Public access for a variety of historic uses and other activities would be guaranteed on the entirety of the property.

What exactly is land ethics? According to Leopold, “Land ethics expands the boundaries of ethics by including soils, waters, plants, and animals,” (Leopold, page 239). However, a land ethic cannot prevent the alteration, management, and the use of the resources stated above. Basically, Leopold states that land ethics change the role that we humans play from that of a land-conqueror to that of a citizen and member. In class, we learned that land ethics imply respect for the surrounding community. We as humans are important, and thus, have more responsibility to protect the environment.

The Land Trust for Tennessee was founded in 1999. They protect over 100,000 acres of land statewide for a variety of projects including recreation, wildlife, water protection, and historic preservation. The land is typically acquired through the donation of conservation easements.

The excerpt from “The Land Ethic”, talks about the community concept, the land pyramid, and the outlook in terms of land ethic. Aldo Leopold was throughout his life at the forefront of the conservation movement. The land ethic expand the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals. The excerpt describes how the land is being destroyed. Civilians are part of this destruction and we’re losing the love for the land. We send helter-skelter down rivers, affecting the soil. We believe that the waters have no other function but to turn turbines, float barges, and carry off sewage. Finally, the plants and the animals, we destroy most of the communities and exterminate many of the largest and most beautiful species. A

Firstly let's explain what exactly asset protection trust is and how many people does it involve. Most importantly there is a grantor who is interested in getting his assets secured. Then there is a trustee he is a a person who is interested in protecting grantor's assets. The trust is a contract that grantor and trustee undergo to protect grantor's assets.

The Conservation Reserve Program and Conservation Security Program are controlled by the USDA and aim to steady production. The reserve program pays farmers to replace crops with ground cover on an acre basis. The security program works to limit the production on the excess land freed up because of the controls on cash crop production. These are considered to be the most controversial government programs because they technically off-set issues caused directly by agricultural subsidies.

Wildlife conservation in the United States has been based on the Public Trust Doctrine where in wildlife and