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Index 



Watershed Protection Program, 2 1 9 



Watersheds, 7, 10, 14, 31; as recrea- 

 tional resource, 127; and sediment 

 control, 64; in urban land use, 127 



Watkins, Myron W., 168n 



Weather control, 189 



Weeks Act (1911), 7 



Wehrwein, George, 109 



Welsh, J. Leroy, 63n 



Wengert, Norman, 223-24, 226n 



Western states, water resource problem 

 in, 184 



Whelpton population projection, 101 



White, Gilbert F., 128n, 205«, 227-45 

 passim 



White Mountains, 125 



Whyte, William H., Jr., 127ai, 128 



Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 20 



Wilderness areas, 16-17, 20, 28, 29, 

 148 



Wilderness Society, The, 16, 16rt 



Wildlife conservation groups, influence 

 of, 220 



Wildlife refuges, 16 



Williamson, James A., 26 



Williston Basin, oil reserves in, 56 



Wilson, James, 27, 52n 



Wilson, Woodrow, 4, 5 



Withdrawal Act (1910), 7 



Withdrawal of resources, 42 



Wolman, Abel, 150«, 153n, 154n 



Woodbury, Coleman, 13 In 



World War II, resource use and devel- 

 opment during, 17 



Wright, David McCord, 75-76, 76n 



Yellowstone National Park, 27, 125 

 Younghusband, Sir Francis, 107-8 

 Yosemite National Park, 27, 125 



Zimmermann, Erich W., 192, 192n 

 Zinc,. 59, 231; see also Lead-zinc 



