... as the Division of Wildlife Services, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Bureau of Land Management of the United States Department of the Interior, the Corps of Engineers of the ... passage of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, planning and decision-making that might have an effect on the quality of the environment was too often the exclusive province of the engineer ... achievement of the highest and best use of land and resources is more profitable to mankind than unplanned development 6) The police power of the state, the ultimate sovereignty of the people, and the...