Conservation
During the progressive era, industrial improvements also meant less care taken to human health and environmental problems. In turn, new policies were presented in order to prevent destructive actions from “economic enterprises” (Wells 2010). Included was the exploitation of the land due to mining, and the taking over of forests and land (Library of Congress). “The Roosevelt administration was responsible for the following: the Newlands Act of 1902, which funded irrigation projects from the proceeds of the sale of federal lands in the West;