Number: 1977-07   WHEREAS, historical accounts and scientific records corroborate that changes cyclically over the long-term and fluctuates in the short-term as well; and WHEREAS, climatic changes and fluctuations can have great environmental, economic, and social impact on world order; and WHEREAS, it appears increasingly likely that man-caused pollution, industrial and in other forms, in in ...[Read More]

Number: 1977-25   WHEREAS, vast areas of federal land within the United States are administered for the public benefit under multiple use concepts; and WHEREAS, from time to time portions of these lands are sold, traded, or leased to private interests which may prevent public access to public properties; and WHEREAS, the public has a right to use public lands for approved activities, includin ...[Read More]

Number: 1977-05   WHEREAS, Section 403 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (FWPCA) prohibits ocean discharges about which exists insufficient information to reasonably judge the impacts; and WHEREAS, this Section directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator to issue regulations for determining these impacts; and WHEREAS, present EPA regulations do ...[Read More]

Number: 1977-23   WHEREAS, the Gallatin Elk Herd requires range on controlled access lands in order to survive and prosper; and WHEREAS, elk and other big game animals long have been associated with Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin and Beaverhead National Forests of Montana; and WHEREAS, recent economic growth and development, including resource extraction and utilization, has resul ...[Read More]

Number: 1977-26   WHEREAS, the portion of the Central Arizona Project known as the Orme Dam, sited at the confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers, will flood approximately twenty-five (25) miles of desert streamside habitat, which is the last stream habitat with concommitant natural growth of its kind within a radius of sixty (60) miles of the dam site; and WHEREAS, habitat necessary for uniq ...[Read More]

Number: 1977-27   WHEREAS, the United States Forest Service has recently announced closures of national forest land to camping by reason of lack of funds for patrol and cleanup; and WHEREAS, such closures deprive the public of the use of public land without adequate notice and opportunity to comment; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual meeting assem ...[Read More]

Number: 1977-08   WHEREAS, international industrial interests are planning a massive supertanker transshipment port and oil storage facility in the Palau Island; and WHEREAS, this installation would require extensive dredging and other disturbance of the biologically-rich and relatively undisturbed Kossel Reef system, which is of high ecologic, scientific, educational, and recreational value; ...[Read More]

Number: 1977-11   WHEREAS, large expanses of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean floors beyond the submerged margins of the continents are carpeted with billions of tons of nodules containing commercially valuable proportions of manganese, cooper, nickel, cobalt, and other minerals; and WHEREAS, several United States companies and many multinational consortiums are rapidly developing and ...[Read More]

Number: 1977-03   WHEREAS, the sane and intelligent use of pesticides can bring benefits to all Americans; and WHEREAS, the improper use of pesticides can result in immediate poisoning, kidney and liver damage, lowered resistance to disease, damage to the central nervous system, cancer, genetic mutations, and birth defects with enormous human, societal and monetary costs; and WHEREAS, pestici ...[Read More]

Number: 1976-02   WHEREAS, the Bicentennial observance is highlighting the history of the Nation and those factors, including natural resources, which were significant in its development; and WHEREAS, the conservation-environmental movement evolved from documented needs for better husbandry and wise management of both renewable and non-renewable resources which have contributed so much to our ...[Read More]