In 1971, the Environmental Protection Agency created the DOCUMERICA Project, a program designed to document and catalogue the effects of the EPA in its efforts towards environmental conservation. After six years, the program was shut down, but the end result was a massive archive of images gathered by over 100 freelance photographers from all across America. A large part of these photographs are now housed on the US National Archives' online catalogue (as well as its Flickr page). These are my favorites.
National Metals Junkyard, 1972
Photographer: Bruce McAllister
Bruce McAllister Denver Colorado 1972 DOCUMERICA photography
Thunderclouds Over Grassy Plateau, 1972
Photographer: Boyd Norton
At the Oldlands’ Summer Cow Camp. The Oldlands Have Ranched the Piceance Creek Area for Three Generations, 1973
Photographer: David Hiser
Migrant Baby in Front of Two Room Shack, Where Three Families (Approximately 20 People) Live, 1972
Photographer: Bill Gillette
Migrant Workers Return Home at Dusk from a Day in the Sugar Beet Fields, 1972
Photographer: Bill Gillette
