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Thomas Mathus predicted that exponential population growth would outpace linear food production, leading to starvation
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John Muir Was Born
He was known for his preservation efforts and known by most for perserving the Yosemite and Sequoia National Park. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance -
Homestead Act
Gave americans land at little or no cost at all. Usually consisted of 160 acres. -
Yellow Stone National Park Founded
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American Forestry Association Founded
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Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks Founded
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General Revision Act
Was assured by the president to help preserve the chopping of the forest. -
Sierra Club Founded
The Sierra Club is the largest and oldest conservation organization in the U.S. It was founded by John Muir. -
Lacey Act
The Lacey Act of 1900 is a conservation law that protects game species. Its goal was to stop illegal commercial hunting. -
Golden Age of Conservation
The period of time where Theodore Roosevelt created many environmental laws that changed how humans function in America. -
First WIldlife Refuge Established
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Gifford Pinchot
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 -
U.S forest service founded
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Aldo Leopold
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. -
Audubon Society Founded
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. -
Antiquities Act
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. -
-Congress became upset because Roosevelt was waving so muchforest land so they banned further withdrawals
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US National Park service founded
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Dust Bowl
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Soil Conservation Service Founded
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. -
Civilian Conservation Corps Founded
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. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
is an adhesive stamp required by the United States federal government to hunt migratory waterfowl such as ducks and geese. -
Taylor Gazing Act
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. -
Fish Plus Wildlife Service Founded
An organization founded to help protect the over fighing and help keep fish at a stable population. -
Jane Goodall
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 -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. -
Wilderness Act
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. -
Enviornmental Protection Agency Established Clear Air Act
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Enviornmental Protection Agency Established Clear Air Act
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Garret Hardin introduced the Tragedy of the Commons
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
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. -
NEPA
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). -
Richard Nixon
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Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire
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 -
First Earth Day
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Enviornmental Protection Agency Established Clear Air Act
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FIFRA
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Endagered Species Act
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OPEC Oil embargo
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. -
Sherwood Roland and Molina Announce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
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FIFRA
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RCRA
enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste. -
Enviornmental Protection Agency Established Clear Air Act
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Clean Water Act
is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. -
Surface Mining Control Reclamation Act
is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. -
FIFRA
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Love Canal, NY & Lois Gibbs
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. -
3 Mile Island Nuclear Accident
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. -
CERCLA
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Alaskan Lands Act
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 -
Ronald Regan
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Bhopal India
Toxic chemicals killed about 2,000 people -
Chernobyl
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. -
CERCLA
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World Population reaches 5 million
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Montreal Protocol
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. -
FIFRA
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Exxon Valdez
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. -
Enviornmental Protection Agency Established Clear Air Act
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CERCLA
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Energy Policy Act of 1992
It was passed by Congress and addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management. -
Desert Protection Act
is a federal law that established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert. -
Julia Butterfly Hill sat in a tree "Luna" for 700+ days to protest deforestation
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Kyoto Protocol
is an international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. -
World Population Reaches 6 billion
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World Population Reaches 7 Billion
