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A period of transition from hunting and gathering to stationary farming. https://www.britannica.com/topic/agricultural-revolution
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Agricultural societies became more urban and industrialized. (cotton gin, transcontinental railroad, electricity, etc.)
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John Muir was born in the year 1838, and he founded the Sierra club and also helped to establish 2 national parks (Sequoia and Yosemite).
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Henry Thoreau lived on his own in the woods in a secluded cabin, where he learned about the nature around him.
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The Homestead Act allowed settlement in the Western United States to anyone who could put up a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land.
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American national park located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
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Collects and spreads information about forests to raise recognition to conserve existing forests.
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The General Revisions act repealed the "Timber culture and Preemption Acts" and authorized the president of the United States, under the forest reserve act, to create forest preserve.
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Founded by John Muir in 1892, it is the worlds oldest environmental organization.
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The Lacey act protects both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for a wide variety of violations.
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When Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir worked together to preserve hundreds of acres of land in the United States.
https://www.sutori.com/item/1901-1909-now-called-the-golden-age-of-conservation-theodore-roosevelt-made-i-9986 -
Designation for certain protected areas of the United States fish and wildlife service.
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Influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation.
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The Forest Service is an agency that looks over all of the National Parks /Forests.
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An American Forester and Politician, served as the first chief of the US forest service from 1905-1910.
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American Non-profit, environmental organization, dedicated to conservation.
https://action.audubon.org/onlineactions/Caiv_BMt5EWxyZwiqKHwrg2?ms=digital-fund-ppc-bing-x-20180000_bing_paid_donate&utm_source=Bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=evergreen&utm_term=keyword&msclkid=29baa9174a7c1bab8836f2b62351fb65&utm_content=Brand%20-%20Exact -
This law gives the president of the United States authority to, by executive order to restrict the used of particular land owned by the Federal government.
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The United States federal agency that manages all the national parks, national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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A period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to the American and Canadian Prairie lands in the 1930's.
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A public relief work program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for the unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 17 to 23.
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An agency of the USDA that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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A United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.
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Requires each waterfowl hunter to be 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp.
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A book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Written by Howard Zahniser of the Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9 million acres of federal land.
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An act that recommends for nation wild rivers and scenic rivers to be protected from development that would substantially change there wild and scenic rivers.
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The Cuyahoga River is known as the river which caught fire and this helped to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960's.
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United States environmental law that established a United States national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment.
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An annual day on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earths natural environment.
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Created to protect human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by congress.
https://www.epa.gov -
United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview -
non-toxic, non-flammable alternative to dangerous substances like ammonia for purposes of refrigeration and spray can propellants.
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A United States Federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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Is one of the dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970's.
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Started in October 1973, when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries of the OAPEC. Proclaimed and oil embargo.
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The principal Federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
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The primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.
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Primary Federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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A neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in Lasalle section of the city. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Reed Avenue.
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Was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html -
United States federal law passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Cater.
https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/alaskcn.html -
Gas leak incident in India, considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-30-years-later/100864/ -
A catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union.
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The objective of CERCLA is to clean up the uncontrolled releases of the specific hazardous substances.
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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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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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Energy conservation and energy management, natural gas imports and exports alternative fuels and requiring certain fleets to acquire alternative fuel vehicles, which are capable of operating on non petroleum fuels, electric motor vehicles, radioactive waste, coal power and clean coal, renewable energy, and other issues.
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Established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert.
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A protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on the Climate Change, aimed at fighting global warming.
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It means that the population of the world has doubled in less than four decades. Similarly, it means that a tenth of all the people who have ever lived are now alive.
http://earthsky.org/human-world/this-date-in-science-6-billion-humans-and-counting
