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Thomas Mathus prediction
Thomas Mathus predicted that exponential population growth would outpace linear food production, leading to starvation. -
John Muir
He was known as the "The Father Of The National Park System" because he help preserve the national parks from writing letters to congress to preserve them. He is famous from saving the Yosemite and Sequoia Parks. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walden other named "Or Life In The Woods" was a book by Henry Thoreau who isolated himself from society to get a better understanding of it. He had a cabin near lake Walden and in the book he writes about his experiences while living in the cabin. -
Homestead Act of 1862
The Act was placed by President Lincoln that let people who didn't take arms againist the US, was 21 or older, or head of household could apply to claim a federal land grant. -
Yellowstone National Park founded
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American Forestry Association founded
The American Forestry Association is dedicated to help protect and restore healthy forest ecosystems. -
Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks founded
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General Revision Act
The Act made about 16 million acres of forest to be set aside for federal use in the Yellowstone area. -
Sierra Club founded
founded by John Muir it was a club that explored, enjoyed, and protected the wilds of the earth. -
Lacey Act
The Lacey Act protects all wildlife and plants from being taken, sold, or traded and the act made civil and criminal penalties against people who violated the wildlife . -
Golden Age of Conservation(Theodore Roosevelt) 1901-1909
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First national wildlife refuge established
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Aldo Leopold
He attended Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. He is known for being "The father of wilderness conservation". -
Audubon Society founded
Conservation of birds, wildlife and other healthy ecosystems. -
U.S. forest Service founded
U.S. forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture which administers 20 national grasslands and 155 national parks. -
Gifford Pinchot
Served as the first Chief of the US Forest Service and was also the Governor of Pennsylvania. -
Congress upset with Roosevelt
Congress became upset because Roosevelt was waving so much forest land so they banned further withdrawls. -
U.S. National Park service founded
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Dust Bowl
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Soil Conservation Service founded
provided assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
Was a public work relief program for unemployed and unmarried men from relief families. -
Taylor Grazing Act
Federal law that regulates the grazing of public lands to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Stamp required by the federal government to hunt migratory waterflow like geese and ducks. -
Fish plus Wildlife Service
Federal Government agency dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. -
Jane Goodall
She studied the Kasakela chimpanzee commuinity on their social and family lives. -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
This book was writen to help spread the concern about the American environment and helped lanuch the American environment movement. -
Wilderness Act
Made the legal boundaries for the wilderness in the U.S. and protected 9.1 million arces of the federal land. -
Garret Hardin introduced the Tragedy of the Commons
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Protected wild and scenic rivers from having development on them that would change their nature. -
National Environmental Policy Act
National policy that promotes the enhancement of the environment. -
Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire
This fire started many water pollution control organizations and showed how polluting water is harmful and can be dangerous. -
Richard Nixon
He established a lot of new organizations that had to deal with the environment. -
Clean Air Acts
Laws designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
First Earth Day
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Environmental Protection Agency established
Agency by the federal government created to protect human health and the environment by enforcing regulations based on laws passed by congress. -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act
Federal law that regulates to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
OPEC oil embargo
Raised oil prices due to the U.S. aidiing Isreal during the Yom Kippur War. -
Endangered Species Act
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Sherwood Roland and Molina Announce the CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
CFC is chlorofluorocarbon which is an organic compound that contains carbon, chlorine, and fluorine which is produced into methane and ethane. -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Federal law which governs the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste. -
Clean Water Act
Federal law that governs water pollution and control toxic waste pollutants. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining. -
Love Canal, NY & Lois Gibbs
Lois Gibbs was a mother of the Love Canal area and her son begin to become sick with epilepsy, suffered asthma, a urine problem, and low white blood cell count. All of these came from leaked chemial waste and they found out they were living on 21,000 tons of buried chemical waste. -
3 Mile Island Nuclear Accident
The accident was a meltdown in one of the nuclear reactors on 3 mile island. -
Alaskan Lands Act
Federal law that preserved lands in Alaska for many different purposes like for the native alaskans, national parks, and wildlife refudges. -
Ronald Regan
He had a different perspective than Jimmy Carter and wasn't big on the environment during his years as president. -
Bhopal, India
The worlds worst industrial disaster which came from a pesticide plant in Bhopal. The cloud exposed people to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. -
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Super-Fund)
Federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. -
Chernobyl
A nuclear accident that occured at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The explosion and fire released large amounts of radioactive particles into the air which spread around western USSR and Europe. -
Worlds Population reaches 5 billion
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Montreal Protocol
Worldwide treaty to help protect the ozone layer by telling people the substances that are believed to be responsible for ozone depletion. -
Exxon Valdez
Big oil spill in the Bligh Reef in Alaska and in result the second biggest oil spill in U.S. history. -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
Addressed alternative fuel sources and regulated the minimum number of light duty alternative fuel vehicles required in certain federal fleets. -
Desert Protection Act
Federal law that establishes the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert. -
Julia Butterfly Hill sat in tree "Luna" for 700+ days to protest deforestation
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Kyoto Protocol
International treaty to industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. -
Worls population reaches 6 billion
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World population reaches 7 billion
