ENVIRONMENTAL LAW—THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION PROGRAM: HOW MILITARY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS CONSERVED THIRTY MILLION ACRES FOR MILITARY USE AND THE PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES

Authors

Susan Perkins Stark

Abstract

James N. Perkins’ research and efforts, along with those of Corey Ford, Alastair MacBain, and the generals leading the military in the 1950s, would result in the Department of Defense Natural Resources Conservation Program. The program functions as the model for the other official and informal programs and subsequent legislation to further the environmental stewardship by the military. This Article reviews the military’s use of its lands and stewardship practices, along with its authority over use, including its environmental controls. Decades later, the military recognizes the efforts of Perkins and the others that led to the creation of the Department of Defense National Resources Conservation Program and ultimately resulted in the placement of nearly thirty million acres of land managed by the Department of Defense into conservation and the protection of the world’s largest concentration of endangered species.

Recommended Citation

Susan Perkins Stark, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW—THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION PROGRAM: HOW MILITARY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS CONSERVED THIRTY MILLION ACRES FOR MILITARY USE AND THE PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES, 38 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 355 (2016), https://digitalcommons.law.wne.edu/lawreview/vol38/iss3/3