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Wrote- Life in the Woods
American Author and Poet
Naturalist
Philospher
Abolitionist -
Died- December 24, 1914
Created the Sierra Club- protected the Sierra Nevada national park
Published a book named Our National Parks, that got attention from Teddy Roosevelt -
Chief of the Division of Forestry
Former chief and head of the new Forest Service
Founder of the Society of American Foresters
Referred to as the "Father of American Conservation" -
Died- April 12, 1945
Created- The Soil Conservation Service, The Civil Conservation Corps.(The New Deal), The Tennessee Valley Authority -
Founded The Wilderness Society, the conservation and environmentalist movements, and the profession of game management
Former mayor of Wisconsin
Wrote The Sand Almanac
Died while helping his neighbor with a bush fire -
Environmentalist, Author, and Marine Biologist
Wrote Silent Spring
Wanted to ban the use of DDT -
Created Earth Day
Former Governor of Wisconsin
Created "Nelson Pill Hearings"
Was the Counselor for the Wilderness Society
Recieved the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Wrote Betond Earth Day -
A deserted project that was supposed to connect the two levels of Niagara Falls. Became a chemical dumpsite and landfill. Exploded in 1978, causing contamination to everything.
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Former President of the United States
Strong believer in oil drilling
Helped to increase pollution and global warming -
American Environmental Activist
Worked to get the Love Canal cleaned up
Created the Love Canal Homeowners association -
Smoke from chimneys bagan to affect the air in London. Caused London to go into a smog and killed 3,000 people per week. Killed over 12,000.
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Dead zones are caused by excessive nutrient pollution from human activities. These cause oxygen to decrease in the ocean, causing marine life to struggle.
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A reactor melted causing radiation to go into the river. Got attention from President Carter. Workers had high levels of radiation.
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An explosion in a reactor caused the powerplant to explode, which only killed 2 people at the time, but released radiation into the air which later killed 30 people.
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An oil tank spilled into the Prince William Sound causing a big amount of wildlife to die and causing bad effects on the clean up crews of the oil spill.
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There was loss of water in the Aral Sea due to an unnatural disaster.
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300 million gallons of coal ash spilled in central Tennessee. The wall holding back the coal ash broke causing it to spill out onto many houses and some rivers.
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Natural gas leaked into a riser causing it to explode and killing 11 people. This released gallons and gallons of oil into the gulf of Mexico making the waters nearly unlivable for any sea creatures.
