Talk:Weeks Act

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Daniel Ducote.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 12:48, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Correction required
"Responsibility for land purchased through the Weeks Act was not given to former Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot because he resigned in 1907, with the stipulation that he would only resign if he could appoint his successor." Pinchot remained Chief of the Forest Service until 1910 when he was terminated for insubordination during the Ballinger Controversy. Whoever wrote this may be referring to the Chief Forester's position on the National Forest Reservation Commission--the body given authority to make purchases under the Weeks Act. I can't figure it out because the citation's link is broken. --Student of Conservation History — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.160.77.243 (talk) 21:06, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Rewrite
Apparantly the re-write is required because the original article was a copyright violation. John (Jwy) 04:48, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Revisions 11-22
Hello! I have made the following revisions to this page as part of my student editing project: 1. I found that the first two paragraphs of this article were plagiarized, so I re-worded the content for originality. 2. I added a sentence qualifying the information about the provisions of this law in the first paragraph, "This meant that the federal government would be able to purchase private land if the purchase was deemed necessary to protect rivers' and watersheds' headwaters in the eastern United States." 3. I added a scientific source for the information I added to the first paragraph. 4. I added content to the final paragraph explaining the benefits to society and the environment that this act has had. 5. I added the name of the president who signed this bill into law. 6. I added the following hyperlinks to this article: William Howard Taft, rivers, headwaters, eastern U.S., US House of Reps, and US Senate. --Daniel Ducote (talk) 06:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)