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The changing roles of environmental interest groups in national policy-making : a marine conservation case study

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Simler, Brooke S.

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Interest groups have participated in the American political system since the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Environmental interest groups, a subsection of the American interest group society, have been especially active in national policies since the proliferation of environmental laws and environmental advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s. When environmental...

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generation, but to also use resources wisely to provide for future generations. Gifford Pinchot, the first
Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

Creator:

Leaver, Jennifer Jensen

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In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...

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National Monument (GSENM) Orange - National Parks I National Recreation Area Green Dixie National Forest
A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

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Montañez, Morgan

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The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...

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passed in the year 1850. This “granted 320 acres of land to white male settlers of Oregon who were U.S