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Book writen about living in the woods. A deatailed account of nature.
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The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost.
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American Forests is a non-profit conservation organization, established in 1875, and dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy forest ecosystems. The current headquarters are in Washington, D.C.
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Extreme Preservationalist
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The General Revision Act of 1891 repealed the Timber Culture and Preemption Acts and authorized the President of the United States, under the Forest Reserve Act, to create forest preserves "wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not...."
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The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States.
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The Lacey Act protects both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for a wide array of violations.
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26th president of the US. Loved hunting and made many conservation laws.
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The United States Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres
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Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and for advocating the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal.
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Aldo Leopold was an American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, and environmentalist.
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The National Audubon Society is an American, non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation.
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Prevented US citizens from urbanizing and populating pretty land. Makes land untouchable.
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Was a puplic work relief program for young men.
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An agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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1930's
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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.
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A document hunters need to legally shoot ducks and birds. Funds fish and game programs.
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US gov. agency dedicated to the managment of fish, wildlife and natural habitats.
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British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist and UN messenger of peace.
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Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published on September 27, 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement.
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1963-1990.The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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Protected rivers that were important for future generations.
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A heavily polluted river that caught fire due to pollutions.
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National Enviromental Policy Act. Federal agencies to take the enviroment into account when making decisions.
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Provides federal control of pesticide distribution, sale, and use.
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US didnt get oil from OPEC because of a war with Israel.
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Is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
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Is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.
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The primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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Was a neighborhood in Niagra falls NY. Love Canal became the subject of national and international attention after it was revealed that the site had formerly been used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical.
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partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, on March 28, 1979.
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The Act provided for 43,585,000 acres of new national parklands in Alaska; the addition of 53,720,000 acres to the National Wildlife Refuge System; twenty-five wild and scenic rivers
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gas leak incident in india. over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl socyariate gas
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catastrophic nuclear accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant in ukraine.
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is an 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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Spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrells of oil in the prince williams sound.
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Established several energy managment goals.
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Established Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave Preserve in the California desert.
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1997-2005. International treaty that is set to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
