Policy Spotlight: Conservation and Environmental Policy

Stephanie A. Mercier and Steve A. Halbrook ()
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Stephanie A. Mercier: Farm Journal Foundation
Steve A. Halbrook: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Chapter Chapter 19 in Agricultural Policy of the United States, 2020, pp 333-351 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter traces US conservation/environmental policy from the mid-nineteenth-century romantics to the present day fight over the reach of the Clean Water Act, from John Muir to Gifford Pinchot and Hugh Hammond Bennett and on to Rachael Carson and the modern environmental movement. The conservation mission at USDA is detailed. Modern land retirement programs, conservation compliance, working lands programs, and farmland preservation programs are discussed in detail. Modern environmental legislation is outlined with an emphasis on current issues before Congress and the courts.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_19

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