TITLE

A Year 2000 Chance to Protect Some Natural Treasures

PUB. DATE

April 1999

SOURCE

Wilderness Society's Quarterly Newsletter;Spring99, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p2

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Encourages United States President Bill Clinton to use the Antiquities Act to protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Refuge. Accounts of the protection of three western landscapes in California by Clinton; Stance of Americans to the idea of oil drilling in the area; Scope and limitations of the Antiquities Act.

ACCESSION #

3584389

Tags: ENVIRONMENTAL protection -- United States;  ENVIRONMENTAL policy;  CLINTON, Bill, 1946-

 

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