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<h3><strong>Environmental Protection (C-1)</strong></h3>
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<strong><em>"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water."</em> </strong><br /> <br />- Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), Poor Richard's Almanac. <br /> <br />Public service employees and volunteers serve on the front lines in efforts to protect the environment. The United States Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for protecting human health and the environment. The Agency is accountable for environmental protection as it relates to various aspects of the national environment, such as: air pollution, chemicals and toxins, climate change, promoting greener living, pesticides, waste management, and water safety. Public service employees and volunteers working toward the protection of human health and the environment include administrators, biologists, conservationists, ecologists and other natural scientists. Government officials are working in the political arena to legislate environmental protection policy. Many committed individuals are donating time and effort as volunteers, to local conservation causes, toward safeguarding the future wellbeing of life on earth.<br /> <br />Environmental protection is an international issue. Cooperation is necessary from each country, and their organizations in every sector, which all have a vested interest in safeguarding the planet. In the international arena, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) was established in 1972, mandated to <em>"be the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, that promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimensions of sustainable development within the United Nations system and that serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment."</em> UNEP has offices in each world region and its priorities include assisting countries, in particular developing countries in managing responses to climate change, as well as the holistic management of the ecosystem.<br /> <br />We all have a role to play in influencing the decision-making processes, so as to ensure that adequate legal and institutional measures are put in place to support environmental protection and sustainability. Without ample legislation we run the risk of reversing our hard earned development accomplishments.
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Verplanck Colvin, Adirondack Artist
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<h4><a href="https://vmps.omeka.net/exhibits/show/environment-protection-gallery/environment-protection-gallery">Return to Environmental Protection</a></h4>
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Today, the United States is home to over 6,600 state park sites which span 14 million acres. The Adirondack Preserve, set up by New York state in the late 19th century, paved the way for the founding of these state parks and other protected lands.
In the mid-1800s, deforestation and farming threatened the Adirondack forests, as well as erosion and flooding. The writer S.H. Hammond recognized the need for protection: "Had I my way, I would mark out a circle of a hundred miles in diameter, and throw around it the protecting aegis of the constitution. I would make it a forest forever. It would be a misdemeanor to chop down a tree and a felony to clear an acre within its boundaries."
Inspired by Hammond's words, Verplanck Colvin (a lawyer, illustrator, author, and topographical engineer with a love of the environment) compiled annual reports of the Adirondack Forest over the course of thirty years. It was Colvin who pushed for the creation of the Adirondack Forest Preserve, explaining that "unless the region be preserved essentially in its present wilderness condition, the ruthless burning and destruction of the forest will slowly, year after year, creep onward ... and vast areas of naked rock, arid sand and gravel will alone remain to receive the bounty of the clouds, unable to retain it." His efforts to convince legislation were successful, and the Preserve was established in 1885.
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Verplanck Colvin
Date
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ca. 1879
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Source: Verplanck Colvin. (2012, July 13). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved Oct 9, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/Rbz90I">http://bit.ly/Rbz90I</a><br /><br />History of the Adirondack Park. (n.d.). New York State Adirondack Park Agency. Retrieved Oct 9, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RNz0A5">http://bit.ly/RNz0A5</a>
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Medium: Drawing
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Whiteface Mountain, State Parks, Conservation, Adirondack Forests, Forest
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Link: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Division_of_Levels_-_Measurement_of_Whiteface_Mountain.jpg">Wikipedia</a>
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Albany State Printer
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Verplanck Colvin
Language
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English
Type
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Park
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New York
Adirondack Forests
Conservation
Forest
State Parks
Whiteface Mountain