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Plymouth Colony passed America's first ordinance controlling the sale timber.
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Regulations for deer hunting were imposed by the charter of Newport, Rhode Island.
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Several of the colonies had passed laws against burning of the forests.
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Connecticut and Massachusetts imposed limits on the deer hunt.
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New York Sporting Club was formed.
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First state administered game and fish commission was created in Massachusetts.
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America Forestry Association was organized.
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Forestry office became the Division of Forestry of the USDA.
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Only 500,000 deer in North America, and those were hidden in dense swamps.
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Congress authorized the certain of forest resources from publc-owned land.
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Gifford Pinchot became head of the USDA's Forestry Division.
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Made the interstate transportation of game taken against stae law a federal crime.
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The Weeks Law gave the President authority to purchase forest lands for river water shed protection.
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The United States and Great Britain signed the Migratory Bird Treaty
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Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act was passed.
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Aldo Leopold published Game Management.
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The Soil Erosion Service was established in the Department of the Interior.
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The Duck Stamp Act was passed.
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The Soil Erosion Service was moved to the Department of Agriculture.
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The United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of Interior was established.
