Index 



257 



plans for, need for analysis of, 222- 

 24; conflicting views on, 20; "Green 

 Book," use of, in analysis, 234; see 

 also Multiple-purpose development 



Rivers and Harbors Act (1917), 43 



Road to Survival, 42 



Rockefeller Foundation, 178-79 



Rocky Mountain region, Phosphoria 

 formation in, 58-59, 83-84 



Roosevelt, Franklin D., 5, 6, 10, 12- 

 16,23, 34, 37,38,229 



Roosevelt, Theodore, viii, xi, 23, 26, 

 34, 37, 38, 44, 50, 67, 79, 160, 197, 

 238; achievements of, attitudes to- 

 ward, 5; on exhaustion of natural re- 

 sources, 51; and private interests, 22, 

 80; stature of, 6; veto of water-power 

 bill (1906), 80-81; and withdrawal 

 of resources, 42 



Rutter, Richard, 228n 



Sargent, Charles S., 26 

 Savings ratios, rural vs. urban, 122 

 Schaefer, V. J., 62n 

 Schurz, Carl, 26 

 Schweitzer, Albert, 108 

 Scitovsky, Tibor, 159n, 173n 

 Seal fishing treaties, 212 

 Sears, Paul B., 106«, 136, 136n 

 Sediment control, 64 

 Sequoia National Park, 27 

 Serena, Al, 19 

 Shaw, Byron T., 67n 

 Sheldon, R. P., 59n 

 Silver, trace occurrence of, 59 

 Smith, Adam, 199 

 Smithies, Arthur, 232 

 Social Security Administration, popu- 

 lation projections of, 101 

 Sodium, 9 



Soil classification, 63-64 

 Soil conservation, 22: 



early program of, 13; 



erosion: 



control of, 62,63-64, 185; 

 regional pattern of, 70-71; 

 as an urban problem, 129; 



and farm surpluses, 178, 198; 



sediment control, 64; 



results of research on, 68-69 

 Soil conservation districts, 37, 212. 244 

 Soil Conservation Service, 13, 20, 212, 



214,217,231, 243 



Soil depletion, in Central America, 107 



Soil Erosion Service, 13 



Soil-profile development, 63 



Spanish-American War, 5 



Sparks, William Andrew Jackson, 26 



Spengler, Joseph, 106 



Staley, A. Eugene, 75, 75rt 



State governments: conservation com- 

 missions, 6-7; and federal govern- 

 ment, relations between, 7-8, 30-31; 

 and local economic interests, 23; 

 planning boards, 212-13; regulatory 

 functions of, 31, 160-61, 209; and 

 tideland oil rights, 17-18, 36; see 

 also Government intervention and 

 under Resource management 



Stimson, Henry, 6, 8 



Stock Raising Homestead Act (1916), 9 



Stockfisch, J. A., 174rt 



Stuart, Edwin S., 52n 



Subsidy, federal, purpose of, 210; see 

 also under Mining and mineral re- 

 sources 



Suez Canal crisis, 192, 194, 195 



Sugar Act (1948), 230 



Sugar beet production, 230, 230n 



Sulfur: percentage depletion allow- 

 ance, 165; trace occurrence of, 59 



Sullivan, Mark, 35 



Sustained yield concept, 19, 22, 29, 32, 



41, 63, 160, 215 

 Swanson, R. W., 59n 



Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act (1944), 17 

 Synthetic materials, development of, 59 



Taft, William Howard, viii, ix, 4, 6, 8, 



42, 44, 160 



Taylor Grazing Act (1934), 13,27,37 



Teapot Dome scandal, 10, 43 



Technology. See Research and tech- 

 nology 



Teller, Edward, 66, 66n, 73, 75 



Tennessee: lead-zinc deposits in, 57; 

 phosphate mining in, 83 



Tennessee River, 129 



Tennessee Valley Authority, 11, 14, 16, 

 37, 38, 41, 212, 231, 244; evaluation 

 of, questions concerning, 213-14; 

 and phosphate mining, 83; success 

 of, in resource development, 213, 

 216,243 



Texas, 56; oil and gas conservation 

 laws, 161 



