This citizen's guide is designed to illustrate the ways that citizens can participate in their state's development of a coastal management program. The Provisions of the Coastal Zone Management Act are discussed and the requirements of an effective management program are considered. Some background information outlining the ecological factors…

Each of the 18 units in this collection addresses a different environmental problem. An introduction precedes the collection of activities and appendices provide lists of forest animals and plants and lists of food webs. A glossary is provided as is a bibliography. Each unit includes: (1) a list of objectives; (2) a summary; (3) a discussion of…

Environmental communications (EC) display three aspects of import to journalism teachers and researchers: first, the EC research base is lean but growing; second, environmental communicators are widely dispersed among an EC ecosystem of varied components; and third, while the varied roots of EC precede the present decade by many years,…

Contained in this publication is a selected bibliography of the social sciences in forestry. Material is grouped within a subject matter classification scheme which covers social sciences applied to forestry at large, forestry's productive agents, forest production, manufacturing, and marketing, trade, and demand for forest output. This…

The Department of Commerce created a Natural Gas Action Group early in the fall of 1975 to assist industrial firms and the communities they serve to cope with the effects of potentially severe and crippling curtailment situations. This action group was trained to assess a specific local situation, review the potential for remedial action and…

The fifth grade classroom program in environmental education at Gadsden Elementary School (Gadsden, South Carolina) aims to develop an intelligent eye which will function more effectively in reading the surroundings when the entire body is in touch with the earth and its resources. (NQ)

This essay examines the characteristics of recreation in consumer and conserver societies; some possible futures for recreation are suggested. (Author/MDR)

The Greek word "ecos," used allegorically for "nest," is being applied across the country in connection with classroom environmental concerns, according to the writer. He describes several environmental education programs in different subject areas and grades and Project ECOS, a traveling workshop for training teachers to use environmental…

In this second of a four-part series, the kind of resource development that is going on in the Four Corners region and how it affects the Navajo people living there are discussed. (NQ)

This second article on Sierra Club history brings the Club into the 1960s. It relates early conservation activities of the club, such as the efforts to save the Hetch Hetchy Valley. The campaign against construction of a dam in Dinosaur National Monument helped establish the club as a national organization. (MA)

Only very recently developed as a refined scientific discipline, hydrology has to cope with a complexity of problems concerning the present and future management of a vital natural resource, water. This article examines available water supplies and the problems and prospects of water resource development. (Author/MA)

Marine biology has become an important area for study throughout the world. The author of this article discusses some of the important discoveries and fields of research in marine biology that are useful for mankind. Topics include food from the sea, fish farming, pesticides, pollution, and conservation. (MA)

Data from a statewide sample of Wisconsin residents are used to test the hypothesis that ruralism is more strongly associated with environmental concern than is agrarianism. Only weak support for this hypothesis is obtained among the total sample; however, the results for the upper-middle class are more in accord with it. (Author/NQ)

Reports that over-grazing and unsound agricultural practices are increasing the world-wide amount of uninhabitable land. Cites some practices which have been used to successfully reclaim arid land areas. (CP)