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Jan 1, 1000
10,000 Years Ago: Agricultural Revolution
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275 Years Ago: Industrial Revolution
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Thomas Mathus (Population Growth)
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1 Billion People in the World
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Walden By Henry David Thoreau
Walden is a self account how he spent his life living in a cabin on a pond where he lived a simple life with out electricity or anyone to bother him so he could enjoy the wilderness. While he was in the wilderness read books grew a bean field and built himself a cabin. -
Homestead Act
This act was signed by Abraham Lincoln and it offered 160 acres of land to any family who would live on the land for five years, pay a registration fee, or Build on it. This opened the west to thousands of Americans -
Yellowstone National Park founded
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American Forestry Association founded
This was the first association in North America organized to promot forests. In 1992 this was turned into American Forests. -
Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks Founded
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General Revision Act
The General Revision Act gave the president the authority to “set aside and reserve any part of the public lands wholly or partly covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not.” This act saved 16 million acres of forests and repealed the Preemption Act (authorized anyone to buy land) and the Timber Culture Act that allowed society to own land and plant crops as they pleased. This later upset Congress. -
John Muir
Early conservationist known by "The Father of the National Parks System", Muir established the Yosemite National Park, -
Sierra Club Founded
This club is on of the oldest, largest, most ingluential grassroots environmental organizations in the US. The Four Basic Rules are:
“1. Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places on Earth
2.Practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth’s ecosystems and resources
3. Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment
4.Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.” -
Lacey Act
The Lacey Act makes it a feral crime to kill an animal with the purpose of selling it to someone else. I alse makes trafficking illegal of wildlife, fish, and plants. -
1901-1909: Golden Age of Conservation
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Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt was our 26th president of the United States and is know as our country's "Conservationist President." He created the United States Forest Service and established 51 Federal bird reserves, four National Parks, and protecting about 230,000,000 acres of public land. -
First National Wildlife Refuge established
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U.S. Forest Service founded
The United States Forest Services in an agent of the United states Department of Agriculture that administers our nation’s forests and grasslands. This service oversees 193 million acres including 150 national forests and 20 national grasslands. -
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot is an American forester and politcian. He was the chief of the United States Forest services from 1905-1910. -
Aldo Leopold
Leopold was the author of the Sand County Almanac. A quote from his part in the book is, “We abuse land because we see it as a commodity to us. When we see it as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” -
Audobon Society founded
The society is an American non-for-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Their main focus was the conservation of birds. -
Antiquities Act
The act was pased by the United States Congress and signed by Theodore Roosevelt. The law gives the president the authority to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government. -
Congress became upset with Roosevelt
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U.S. National Park service founded
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2 Billion people in the World
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1930's Dust Bowl
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Civilian Conservation Corps
This employed three million men to work on projects that benefitted the public. They planted trees to reforest areas, built dams, and improved national parks. -
Soil Consercation Service
This agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers. This helped keep soil fertile and made it easier for farmers. -
Taylor Grazing Act
The act is a United States Federal Law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands to improve range land conditions and regulate their use. 80,000 United States acres of unreserved public land to grazing districts. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp
This act was created to conserve the migratory waterfowl by making any person 16 years old or older must carry a Duck Stamp which qualifies the hunter as a legal wildfowl hunter. -
Fish plus Wildlife service founded
The Fish plus Wildlife Service’s mission is to work with others, to conserve, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants (Which is the only agency in the US with permission to do so). -
FIFRA ( Federal Insecticide, FUngicide, and Rodenticide Act)
This is in place to provide federal pesticides sold must be approved by environmental protection association and contain directions for proper use. -
Jane Goodall
Goodall observed Chimpanzees behavior in the Gombe Stream National Park in Western Tanzania. She founded the Hand Goodall Institute and said, “It isn’t only humans who have personality.” -
3 Billion people in the World
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Silent Spring published by Rachel Carlson
Thsi was credited to help the launch of the American environmental movement. Carson wrote about the dangers of DDT in local foods. -
Clean Air Act
This act established funding for the study and clean-up of Air Pollution. -
Wilderness Act
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Clean Air Act
This act amended to the 1963 clean air act. This set the first federal vehicle emission standards beginning with the 1968 models reducing 72% hydrocarbons, and 56% carbon monoxide. -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
This act was created by congress to reserve certain rivers with natural, cultural, and recreational values in a free flowing condition so it can be enjoyed by future generations. Wild rivers are only accessible by trail and non-polluted and scenic rivers are accessible by roads but not developed. -
Garret Hardin & Tragedy of the Commons
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Cuyahoga River (Cleveland, Ohio)
Cleveland Lacked in sewer and waste disposal, therefore it went into the Cuyahoga River. A floating piece of oil slicked debris was lit on fire by sparks from a passing train. It then got trapped beneath two wooden trestles and caused five story flames. -
NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
This act requires agencies’ to take environmental values into decision making. They are told to think about environmental impact and reasonable alternatives to those actions. -
1969-1974: Richard Nixon (Enviro perspective)
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Clean Air Act
This was designed to improve air pollution problems such as acid rain and damage to the stratospheric ozone layer. -
First Earth Day
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EPA established
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Clean Water Act
This act implements primary law controlling disposal of solid and hazardous waste. -
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil embargo
This prohibits any oil selling to allies of Israel in the “Yom Kippur” with Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. -
Endangered Species Act
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Roland and Molina
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4 Billion people in the World
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RCRA ( Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
This act implements primary law controlling disposal of solid and hazardous waste. -
Clean Air Act
Act was used to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from air borne contaminants know to be hazardous to human health. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
This is a federal law that regulates environmental effects of coal mining. From this act they abandoned 1.1 million coal mine sites in United States. -
Love Canal, NY
Love Canal is where Niagara Falls and Bergholtz river meets, and this started to draw national and international attention, when they found out it was formally used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical. -
Lois Gibbs
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Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
A reactor practically melted and also one of the most serious accidents in US commercial power plant. It left an effect on emergency plans, reactor operating training, and also made stricter rules on regulatory oversight throughout the US. -
Alaskan Lands Act
This protected over 100 million acres of federal land in Alaska by making it national parks, refuge system, or designating wilderness. -
CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)
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1981-1989: Ronald Reagan (Enviro perspective)
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Bhopal, India
An American owned pesticide plant leaked leaving a deadly cloud of lethal gas to float over Bhopal, home to 900,000 people (Many who live in slums). . -
Chernobyl
A reactor that was not properly ran malfunctioned, releasing at least 5% of the radioactive core into the atmosphere. -
Montreal Protocol
This was put in place to protect the ozone be not allowing many substances that they believe were harming or depleting the ozone. -
5 Billion people in the World
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Exxon Valdez
A oil tanker hit the Blight reef in Alaska spilling more than 11 million gallons of oil. This is considered to be the biggest oil spill in US History. This event tested responders’ abilities to respond to disaster cleanups. -
Clean Air Act
Act was used to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from air borne contaminants know to be hazardous to human health. -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
The focus was on energy efficiency, conservation and management. Also the want to address the natural gas imports and exports along with alternative fuel. -
Desert Protection Act
The act establishes Death Valley, Joshua Tree National Parks, and Mojave National preserve as California desert. This was designated to protect the land and said it must be included in National Park System, and National Wilderness Preservation. -
Superfund
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1997-2005 Kyoto Protocol
United Nations set emissions reduction targets to try and reduce emissions of pollutants into the air. The protocol places a higher burden on more developed nations. -
Julia Butterfly Hill
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6 Billion people in the World
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7 Billion people in the World
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Perdicted: 8 Billion people in the World
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Perdicted: 9 Billion people in the World
