722
Stewardship Council has certified 34.9 million acres within the United States as of
2019. Only the dire and fanatical GOP-dictated period of 2016–2020 saw the first
abhorrent abnegation of this trend in the American history.
2
2 Think of Jimmy Carter designating 79.54 million acres of Alaskan geography as “refuge land”
under the “Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980,” which included 10 national
parks such as the largest one in America, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, at 13.2
million acres. See “Presidents’ Day: Remembering Conservation Legacies,” Defenders of Wildlife,
“Jamie,” February 20, 2018, https://medium.com/wild-without-end/presidents-day-rememberingconservation-legacies-89caf1750da1; See also, “Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,” https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/alaskcn.html.
Fig. 80.1 Mount Saint Elias, 18,009 ft/5489 m, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve,
Alaska. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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Stewardship Council has certified 34.9 million acres within the United States as of
2019. Only the dire and fanatical GOP-dictated period of 2016–2020 saw the first
abhorrent abnegation of this trend in the American history.
2
2 Think of Jimmy Carter designating 79.54 million acres of Alaskan geography as “refuge land”
under the “Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980,” which included 10 national
parks such as the largest one in America, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, at 13.2
million acres. See “Presidents’ Day: Remembering Conservation Legacies,” Defenders of Wildlife,
“Jamie,” February 20, 2018, https://medium.com/wild-without-end/presidents-day-rememberingconservation-legacies-89caf1750da1; See also, “Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,” https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/alaskcn.html.
Fig. 80.1 Mount Saint Elias, 18,009 ft/5489 m, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve,
Alaska. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
80 Temptational Obscurity That Brings Hope to Life