APES Timeline

By BrandyCortez
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution

    Transition from hand-made products to Machines.
  • John Muir

    John Muir

    Was a Naturalist, and an early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States
  • Walden By Henry David Thoreau

    Walden By Henry David Thoreau

    The book shows one year and the four seasons to show/ symbolize human development.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Several Federal Laws that gave an applicant ownership of land for little to no cost.
  • Yellowstone National Park Founded

    Yellowstone National Park Founded

  • American Forestry Association Founded

    American Forestry Association Founded

  • Yosemite plus Sequoia National park founded

    Yosemite plus Sequoia National park founded

  • General Revision Act

    General Revision Act

    Authorized the President of the Us to create preserves for the wildlife
  • Sierra Club Founded

    Sierra Club Founded

  • Lacey Act

    Lacey Act

  • First National Wildlife Refuge Established

    First National Wildlife Refuge Established

  • Aldo Leopold

    Aldo Leopold

  • U.S. Forest Service Founded

    U.S. Forest Service Founded

  • Gifford Pinchot

    Gifford Pinchot

    Became first Chief of the forest service
  • Audubon Society Founded

    Audubon Society Founded

  • Antiquites Act

    Antiquites Act

  • Congress became upset because Roosevelt was waving so musch forest land so they banned further withdrawals.

  • U.S. National Park Services founded

    U.S. National Park Services founded

  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

  • Civilian Conservation Corps Founded

    Civilian Conservation Corps Founded

  • Soil conservation Service Founded

    Soil conservation Service Founded

  • Taylor Grazing Act

    Taylor Grazing Act

  • Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

    Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

  • Fish plus Wildlife Service Founded

    Fish plus Wildlife Service Founded

  • Silent spring published by rachel carson

    Silent spring published by rachel carson

  • Wilderness Act

  • Wild and scenic Rivers Act

  • NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)

  • Cuyahoga River in Cleverland Ohio caught Fire

  • First Earth Date

  • Environmental Protection Agency Established

  • OPEC Oil embargo

  • Endangered Species Act

  • Roland and Molina (UCI) announce the CFC's are depleting the ozone layer

  • RCRA (Resource Conservation Recovery Act)

  • Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

  • Clean Water Act

  • Love Canal, NY (Toxic waste leaks into residential houses)

  • 3 Mile Island Nuclear Accident, Pennsylvania

  • Alaskan Lands Act

  • CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Reaponce, Compensation, and liability Act= Super-Fund)

  • Bhobal, Indian (Chemical Toxic Cloud Kills 2,000)

  • Chernobyl Meltdown, Ukraine

  • Montreal Protocol

  • Exxon Valdez

  • Energy Policy Act of 1992

  • Desert Protection Act

  • Kyoto Protocol

  • World population hits 6 billion

  • Al Gore (and IPCC) presented with the Nobel Peace Price for their work in Climate Change

  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

  • UN Climate Change Conference, Cancun, Mexico

  • World Population hits 7 billion