ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on four areas such as: endangered species, national forests, national parks, and pesticides. The brief stories of the "ecologization" of the Endangered Species Act, the National Forest Management Act, national park planning, and the pesticide legislation reveals a twenty-year courtship between ecology and law, in which ecological concepts are gradually introduced in the language and administration of these laws. In March of 1967, the native Hawaiian bird species, Loxioides bailleui, commonly known as the Palila, was listed as "endangered" under the Endangered Species Preservation Act. National parks have offered the setting for serious exploration of applying the concepts and methods of ecology to their management. Silviculture is the theory and practice of controlling forest establishment, competition, structure, and growth. The purpose of this field is primarily the production of trees, "silvies" deals with the growth and development of the single tree and the forest as a biological unit.
