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This was the time where farming because huge and ran out the hunting and gathering era. This gave people a stationary position instead of having to move around alot.
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This is about people getting mass numbers of stuff and big factories came around, creating air pollution.
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A naturalist, author, environment philosopher, and advocate of wilderness in the United States.
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This is a book about living simple in the natural environment. It is also a spiritual finding and sort of a social experiment.
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Encouraged western migration to give them 160 acres of land in turn of living 5 years on the land.
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Park located primarily in Wyoming that was created by Ulysses S. Grant to preserve the land and the beautiful geysers on the land.
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This is an organization that was created to save the forests of american and its beautiful redwoods and trees.
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Second national park created and was created to save the giant sequoia trees for logging.
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This was to ensure that land wasn't freely available to anyone so that if you wanted land, you had to pay for it.
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Created by John Muir to encourage green policies, opposing coal, green energy, and stopping global warming.
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Banned trafficking of illegal animals and later to also help out plants too.
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Time that highlighted the first U.S. forest service and that land should be used for human benefit and nothing else. This was headlined by Theodore Roosevelt.
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This was a safe "hiding place" for any wildlife.
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Thing that gave the U.S. permanent 154 national forests and 20 grasslands that all add up to 193 million acres.
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Reformed the management and development of forests in the U.S. and advocated the conservation of reserves by planned use and renewal.
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Author of "The Sand County Almanac" about conserving and using the land properly and appreciating it.
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Created by John Audubon to encourage conservation of wildlife and birds.
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Gives the president the right to create national monuments on public land to save and display characteristics.
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Congress was angry with roosevelt because he waved too much forest land so they banned future withdrawals.
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Overplowing of the land in the midwest and high wind speed all along with a huge drought caused huge dust storms all across america and destroyed the farm land.
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During Roosevelt's presidency and the great depression, this was created for young men without jobs to make money and work to save natural resources in America.
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Group of 11,000 employees that work to improve, protect, and conserve natural resources on private land.
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Act enforced to reduce the grazing of animals on public land so that it will improve the rangeland conditions.
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They give stamps out to the duck hunters every year so they don't over hunt and then become endangered.
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A service to protect and enhance the fishes wildlife habitat so they can live healthy and stay healthy.
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This was a book about using pesticides and how it very badly hurts our environment and the animals in it.
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This is for the preservation of the wilderness and how men are not to touch it and are very sensitive visitors to it.
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The preservation of certain rivers for future generations use.
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An oil leak on the river created an oil slick which caught fire and burned down railroad bridges.
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Law enforced to enhance the environment and this is also known as the environmental magna carta.
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Arab oil producers slowed the process of shipping oil to the U.S. way down and this made the prices higher.
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Gave the EPA the ability to treat, transport, store, and manage the hazardous waste. This also set up the groundwork for non-hazardous waste treatment.
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Federal act that regulates the discharge of of pollutants into the nations surface fresh water.
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This regulates the environmental effects of coal mining. They regulate coal mines and reclaim abandoned ones.
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22,000 barrels of toxic waste was leaked into the canal and forced people out of their houses.
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This was a nuclear meltdown that was the biggest in history and caused lots of air pollution and health problems.
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This act provided varying degrees of protection over 157,000,000 acres of land in national parks, wildlife refuges, national monuments, ect..
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This was a potential sabotage act where routine pipe checks were stopped and very many deadly chemicals released and killed over 2,000 and injured 558,125.
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This was when a deliberate power outage caused nuclear reactors to catch fire and release radioactive isotopes.
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Global agreement to protect the ozone layer by not creating or using ozone delpeting rsources.
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This was an oil tanker headed to Long Beach, California that struck a reef and spilled 11-38 million gallons of crude oil.
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This act was passed by congress to set goals and amend utility laws to increase clean energy and improve overall energy efficiency.
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This established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National parks and also the mojave national preserve. These arw to protect and save giant deserts.
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This was an oil spill that brought the Kyoto Protocol which is to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations.
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This was when the deepwater horizon oil rig exploded into the Gulf of Mexico, spilling 5 million barrels of oil.
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Conference of the Parties (COP) had a conference in Paris to discuss climate change.
