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.
At the Oldlands’ Summer Cow Camp. The Oldlands Have Ranched the Piceance Creek Area for Three Generations, 1973
Photographer: David Hiser
Empty Steel Beer and Soft Drink Cans Were Accumulated from a Variety of Sources near Taos, New Mexico, to Be Used in Building Experimental Houses, 1973
Photographer: David Hiser
David Hiser Taos New Mexico Documerica photography the seventies
