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Index 



Engel, A. E. J., 57, 57n 

 Engelbert, Ernest A., 209, 209n 

 Enlarged Homestead Act (1909), 7 

 Erosion. See under Soil conservation 

 External economies and diseconomies: 



in competitive grazing, 160; 



concentration of, in natural resource 

 area, 173-74, 176-77; 



concern of early conservationists 

 with, 159-60; 



defined, 171, \l\n; 



differentiated from static technologi- 

 cal interdependencies, 171; 



and investment decisions, 172; 



and multiple-purpose river develop- 

 ment, 159, 160, 175, 184; 



in oil exploitation and production, 

 159, 175, 177, 178, 182, 183; 



and private action in agricultural and 

 industrial operations, 174; 



static, distinguished from dynamic, 

 172; 



static, in natural resource exploita- 

 tion, 173, 176; 



and water pollution problem, 184 



"Fair practice" laws, 15 



Federal Inter-Agency River Basin 

 Committee, 234-35 



Federal Power Commission, 211, 218, 

 234, 237, 238, 242 



Federal Power Commission v. Oregon 

 et al., 31 



Federal Security Agency, 234, 241 



Federal Water Power Act (1920), 9, 

 10, 13, 43, 44, 242 



Federal Wildlife Conference, 16 



Feiss, Julian, 49n 



Fernow, Bernhard E., on role of gov- 

 ernment in resource use, 26-27 



Fesler, James W., 207«, 225n 



Fisher, Joseph L., xi 



Flood control, 30-31; government in- 

 tervention in, 184; importance of, to 

 urban settlement, 128-29 



Flood Control Act ( 1936), 15-16 



Florida, phosphate mining in, 83 



Fluorine, trace occurrence of, 59 



Food products: future supply of, 62- 

 63; supply inelasticities in, 169 



Ford Foundation, 21 



Forest fires, 10, 19, 69; losses from, 68; 

 as state responsibility, 216 



Forest lands: 



federal-state relationships concern- 

 ing, 31; 

 management, developments in, 19; 

 products, future supply of, 62-63; 

 research on, 10, 19, 29, 63; 

 reserves, 5: 



establishment of, 25-26; 

 renamed national forests, 27; 

 use of resources of, 27-28; 

 and time rate of use, 185; 

 see also Forest fires; Timber 

 Forest Products Laboratory, 63 

 Forest Service, 5, 16, 16/i, 19, 31, 69, 



217,218, 229,243 

 Fox, Irving K., xi, 207n 

 Frederick, William L., 226n 

 Friedman, Rose D., 122/z 



Galbraith, John Kenneth, 89«, 100-11 



passim, 148 

 Garfield, James R., 42 

 Gas, natural: consumption of, 77, 90, 

 121; reserves, 56; see also Petroleum 

 General Dam Act (1910), 219 

 General Grant National Park, 27 

 General Land Office, 26 

 Geological Survey, 50, 160 

 Gila Wilderness Area, 16 

 Government intervention in resource 

 use and development: 

 benefit-cost analysis, use of, in eval- 

 uating, 215; 

 and consumption, 96-97, 103, 104, 



177; 

 and determination of the public in- 

 terest, 199; 

 increase in mineral prices as argu- 

 ment for, 181, 182-83; 

 in land use problems, 185, 197-98; 

 mineral discovery and development, 

 subsidies to, 158, 162-67, 183, 

 210; 

 and raw materials price instability, 



159, 167-71, 186, 199-200; 

 and time rate of resource use, 177- 



78, 184, 185; 

 and waste in resource use, 82-83 

 {see also External economies and 

 diseconomies); 

 in water resource problems, 183-84; 

 see also under Urbanization 

 Governors' Conference (1908), viii, 3, 



