In 1976, improperly buried toxic waste seeped into homes in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York. As the years passed,...

The mid-1950’s was a time when the U.S. government began to seriously consider how to protect and conserve our natural resources. The...

When the movie, Jurassic Park came out in 1993, dinosaur pandemonium ensued and people flocked to the Utah hills, looking for dinosaur...

In the days of the wild west, there were essentially no regulations about managing navigable waterways in the United States. One problem...

An interest in preserving sites of great historical importance in the U.S. perhaps began with the frantic efforts to protect Mt. Vernon,...

A study of land use in the U.S. done in 1980 revealed that millions of acres of farmland were being converted to nonagricultural...

In the mid 1800’s explorers and journalists began to notice and write about the rampant slaughter of wildlife in the United States....

Chaco Canyon in New Mexico contains relics of human history from 900 B.C., through habitation by the Puebloan people of Arizona and New...

The Agricultural Street landfill in New Orleans, LA,. was used as a dump for residential and industrial wastes from 1909 to1960. “Dante’s...

After thousands of homesteaders laid claim to land in the American West in the 1800’s, vast parcels of land that no one wanted remained....