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He was known for his preservation efforts and known by most for perserving the Yosemite and Sequoia National Park.
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The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance
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Gave americans land at little or no cost at all. Usually consisted of 160 acres.
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Helped protect and restore forest ecosystems.
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Was assured by the president to help preserve the chopping of the forest.
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The Sierra Club is the largest and oldest conservation organization in the U.S. It was founded by John Muir.
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The Lacey Act of 1900 is a conservation law that protects game species. Its goal was to stop illegal commercial hunting.
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The period of time where Theodore Roosevelt created many environmental laws that changed how humans function in America.
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was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910
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The U.S. Forest Service is a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that controls numerous forests and grasslands.
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was an American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has sold more than two million copies.
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is an American, non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and uses science, education and grassroots advocacy to advance its conservation mission.
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is an act passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. This law gives the President of the United States the authority to, by executive order, restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government.
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formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. Robert Fechner was the head of the agency. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments.
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is an adhesive stamp required by the United States federal government to hunt migratory waterfowl such as ducks and geese.
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is a United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.
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An organization founded to help protect the over fighing and help keep fish at a stable population.
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a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.[2] Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania
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The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement.
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was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres (36,000 km²) of federal land.
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The National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act was an outgrowth of the recommendations of a Presidential commission, the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission (ORRRC). Among other things, the commission recommended that the nation protect wild rivers and scenic rivers from development that would substantially change their wild or scenic nature.
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is a United States environmental law that established a U.S. national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment and also established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
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is located in Northeast Ohio in the United States and feeds Lake Erie. Outside of Ohio, the river is most famous for being "the river that caught fire," helping to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960s
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when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo.That year, Egypt and Syria, with the support of other Arab nations, launched a surprise attack on Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Israel went on full nuclear alert, loading warheads into planes and long-range missiles.
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enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
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is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.
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is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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Currently, houses in the residential areas on the east and west sides of the canal have been demolished. All that remains on the west side are abandoned residential streets. Some older east side residents, whose houses stand alone in the demolished neighborhood, chose to stay. It was estimated that fewer than 90 of the original 900 families opted to remain.
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was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, on March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.
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is a United States federal law passed in 1980 by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 2 of that year.
The Act provided for 43,585,000 acres of new national parklands in Alaska; the addition of 53,720,000 acres to the National Wildlife Refuge System; twenty-five wild and scenic rivers, with twelve more to be studied for that designation; establishment of Misty Fjords and Admiralty Island national monuments in Southeast Alaska; establishment of Steese Nation -
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Toxic chemicals killed about 2,000 people
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was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.
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is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion.
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is an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska.
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It was passed by Congress and addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management.
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is a federal law that established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert.
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is an international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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