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Sep 15, 1000
Agricultural Revolution
The Agricultural Revolution was a period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity that occurred during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe. In this lesson, learn the timeline, causes, effects and major inventions that spurred this shift in production. -
Industrial Revolution
A period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban.It lasted from 1760 to 1820 or 1840. -
John Muir is born
John muir was a influential naturalist who was responsible for the creation of the Grand Canyon, Kings Canyon, Petrified Forest, and Mt. Rainier National Parks as well as Yosemite national park. He is known as the "father of our national park system". -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance. -
The Homestead act
opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. By the end of the Civil War, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years. -
Founding of Yellowstone National Park
A national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming.It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. -
American association founded
The oldest national nonprofit conservation organization in the country, advocates for the protection and expansion of forests. The current headquarters are in Washington, D.C. -
Yosemite plus sequioa national park founded
A National park best known for its waterfalls spanning 1200 square miles where you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more. -
Sierra club formed
An environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco,California by John Muir. -
Lacey Act Founded
A 1900 United States law that bans trafficking in illegal wildlife. In 2008, the Act was amended to include plants and plant products such as timber and paper. -
Golden Age of Conservation
Time period from 1901 to 1909 where President Roosevelt and John Muir worked together to save hundreds of acres of land in the U.S -
First Wildlife National Refuge established
Established by an executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt on March 14, 1903, Pelican Island was the first national wildlife refuge in the United States. -
U.S Forest service founded
agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres (780,000 km2). -
Civillian Conservation Corps
The CCC was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. Originally for young men ages 18–23, it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17–28. -
Taylor Grazing Act
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. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp act
requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp. -
fish plus wildlife service
An agency of federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior which is dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. The mission of the agency is "working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people." -
SIlent Spring by Rachel Carson is published
A famous book documeningted the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. -
Wilderness Act
Law creating the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
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. -
Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire
An event displaying that a river was so polluted that it caught on fire,which would help spur the environmental movement in the us -
National environmental policy act
is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). -
First Earth Day
The first of a soon to be annual event held to demonstrate support for environmental protection -
Clean Air act
A United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws, and one of the most comprehensive air quality laws in the world. -
Environmenta Protection Agency founded
An idea proposed by President Richard Nixon and began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. It was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. -
FIRFA
A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.[2] It is administered and regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the appropriate environmental agencies of the respective states. -
OPEC and Oil Embargo
Arab oil producers declared an embargo that drastically limited the shipment of oil to the United States. These producers, members of a cartel known as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), enforced the embargo in response to the Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel. -
Endangered Species act
Act providing for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
Roland and Molina announce CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
Announcement where two scientists showed physical proof that the ozone is being depleted by CFC's -
RCRA
A principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste. Congress enacted RCRA to address the increasing problems the nation faced from its growing volume of municipal and industrial waste. -
Clean water act
A primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Its objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment, and maintaining the integrity of wetlands. -
subsurface mining control and reclamation act of 1977
A primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands. -
Love Canal,NY
Originally intended in the 1890s as a planned model community, Love Canal grew and then slowly declined before being bought out in the 1940s by the Hooker Company, which dumped industrial waste in the never completed canal. It is now the site of a Superfund disaster that extensively affected the health of hundreds of its residents. -
Three mile island nuclear accident
A partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. -
Bhopal Island
was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster.
It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other chemicals. -
Chernoybl
A catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. -
CERCLA
Authorizes the President to respond to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances into the environment. CERCLA authorities complement those of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which primarily regulates ongoing hazardous waste handling and disposal. -
Montreal Protocol
An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. -
Exxon Valdez disaster
An oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef at 12:04 am local time and spilled 11 to 38 million US gallons of crude oil over the next few days. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters. -
Desert protection act
A federal law (Public Law 103-433), signed by President Bill Clinton, and passed by the United States Congress on October 8, 1994, that established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert. -
Kyoto Protocol(1997-2006)
An international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) human-made CO2 emissions have caused it. -
World Population hits 6 Billion People
Period of time when it was found out that the population of humans are earth had exceeded 6 billion. -
Energy Policy act of 2005
The act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing energy problems, changed US energy policy by providing tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types. -
IPCC report on climate change (2007-2008)
The largest and most detailed report and summary of the climate change situation ever undertaken, produced by thousands of authors, editors, and reviewers from dozens of countries, citing over 6,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies. -
BP oil spill in the gulf
Following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher flowed for 87 days, until it was capped on July 15, 2010.[6][7] Eleven people went missing and were never found and it is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.
