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John Muir is vital to environmental science due to him establishing the first national park. This is important because it helped preserve aspects of the wilderness, and to help up keep the area for future generations. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is critical due to the fact it lays down the footing environmental literature. Which helped promote a connection with nature and to help make earth better -
The Homestead Act was a group of settlers who lived on land and for the next five years they would improve and help the land be prosperous. This was supposed to help economic growth and to help the land more wildly. -
Yellowstone national park is very highly praised due to all the distinctive geological features which helps it be more recognized than other national parks. Yellow Stone national park also has a lot of biodiversity which helps its ecosystem thrive and become a tourist attraction. -
The American Forestry Association was a organization that helped promoted helping forests and helped bring them back and to be more healthy. This organization was vital because it helped people make a change within communities to help preserve these ecosystems -
Yosemite and Sequoia national parks were established in 1890 this park was the third national park founded in the United states. These parks promoted biodiversity and helped new ecosystems flourish -
The General Revision act was the act that companies and people had to own land before tearing down trees and destroying ecosystems, and it also allowed presidents to make forest reserves. This caused a huge impact because people couldn't single handedly wipe out ecosystems on their own free will. -
The Sierra club was founded in May of 1892 this parks first president was John Muir. This helped preserve and keep ecosystems fully together for years. -
The Lacey act helped prevent trafficking of plants, wildlife and fish. It also banned illegal import and extortion of plants and wildlife. -
The golden age of conservation was when president Theodore Roosevelt made a push for national parks, forests and wildlife preservation. This was a major part of history because it helped protect wildlife and nature. -
This was when president Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island. This was the first national wildlife system that was put in place, and it was by Florida's coast. -
The Antiquities act was a act where there was new legal protection over cultural and natural resources of federal land. This helped preserve and protect artifacts within museums and cultural preserves. -
Aldo Leopold was very important due to him writing a book called ""A Sand County Almanac", which helped introduced the idea of land ethic to Americans and helped show everyone they had a duty to the world around them. -
The Audubon society Founded was a society that helped conserve the life and habitat of birds and to create thriving ecosystems. -
Gifford Pinchot is most widely know for being the "father of American forestry". Gifford Pinchot helped with the conservation movement and helped establish the U.S forest park. He later become the govener of Pennsylvania -
This transferred the forest reserves from the the department of interior to the department of agriculture. This was founded by Theodore Roosevelt.
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Congress started to get upset that Theodore Roosevelt was waving so much forest land, and forests were banned from waving forest land. -
Yellowstone National Park was founded and signed off on by Ulysses Grant, the National park later became the first national park -
The Dust Bowl was a period in time where there were crazy dust storms all over the U.S and Canada that completely destroyed any agriculture and the ecology around it. -
The Soil Conservation Service was also a part of the New Deal that was created during the Great Depression. The Soil Conservation Service is a business that helped provide assistance to farmers. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a part of the New Deal that was created by Franklin D Roosevelt. The CCC ended due to the need for work went down drastically -
During the Taylor Grazing Act, America made laws that regulated grazing on specific land. So they can regulate use on the land -
Hunters have to get a specific badge in order to go hunting for birds. This helped create fewer animal killing due to the new regulations -
The Fish plus Wildlife Service helped unnecessarily harm wildlife, the government tried to push conservation efforts -
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act is the act of setting up pesticide regulations in the United States. -
When Roland and Molina announced that CFCs were depleting the ozone layer, it helped spread awareness about the importance of the ozone layer and the damage being done to it. By declaring this people cut back on aerosol cans, ac usage and started using public transport -
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson expresses the importance of environmental harm and how the indirect harmful things we do affect the Earth. It also talks about her goals for what will happen for the earth -
The Clean Air Act is a federal law that helps reduce and control pollution throughout America to keep air pollution from being as high. -
The Wilderness Act was a federal law put in place to help protect the wilderness and the species affected by unprotected areas. -
The Environmental Protection Agency was established to protect human health rights and environmental rights as well. This helped humans and wildlife to have good barriers of protection. -
The wild and scenic river act this allowed certain rivers to have protection from congress. -
The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, is a river that feeds into Lake Erie. The lake was a major attraction, which ended up causing a lot of pollution. It also caught on fire 14 times. -
NPEA is the National Environmental Policy Act is an act that was put in place to better the environment and help cause changes. -
Earth Day was put in place to raise awareness of all the terrible things that are caused by pollution and all the terrible effects humans have on the earth. -
The Endangered Species Act became a federal law in 1973, which helps protect endangered species and gives them protection against harmed species -
In 1973, during the Arab- Israeli wars, Israel was running out of gas/ oil. OPEC decided to ban oil to the U.S to have them stop supplying Israel with all the oil. -
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is a federal law that was enacted that help America be in control of toxic waste being disposed of -
The Clean Water Act became a federal law in 1977. This law was put in place to check levels in the water and to make sure it's not a risk to people's health. -
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act was put in place in 1977. This law doesn't allow for coal mining around national parks. -
Love Canal, NYC, is a part of New York where it was all landfill. It was terrible and disgusting. Love Canal caused a lot of environmental harm due to all the toxins being released. -
3 Mile Island nuclear accident was an accident in which a nuclear weapon exploded and caused a lot of damage to the surrounding area. -
The CERCLA became a federal law in 1980, that created a fund that helped clean up damaged of harardous waste sites -
The Alaska Land Act helped protect 104 million acres of Alaskan land, this extremely expanded the national park lands. -
In Bhopal, India, there was a toxic chemical cloud caused by methyl isocyanate from a power plant it caused a lot of pollution and hazardous waste -
In 1986, a nuclear power plant in Ukraine had a nuclear accident. This happened due to people not checking the levels efficiently -
The Montreal Protocol is when was put in place due to CFCs that were depleting the ozone layer -
Exxon Valdez was a huge oil spill in Alaska's Prince William. -
In 1992, the Energy Policy Act was enacted to help with energy efficiency. This was vital so it could help reduce energy consumption in America. -
The Desert Protection Act was put in place to provide the same amount of protection within national parks in deserts. This law was enacted in California -
In October of 1999, the world population hit 6 billion this was pivotal due to how huge the population now is. -
In 1997- 2005, there treaty was put in place that was enacted to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that were being emitted into the atmosphere.