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Founded the Sierra Club
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Thoreau was a transcendentalist and Walden was about him traveling into the wilderness living in a small little cabin in solitude.
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This was a law passed to give away free land to people in order to help the nation grow
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Non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring forests.
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Allowed the president to create forest preserves under the Forest Reserve Act, to create forest preserves
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The Sierra Club is the oldes enviormental group and it tries to preserve the enviorment and natural resources.
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Creates penalties for damaging the enviorment and/ or it's wildlife
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1901-1909
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Known for being the most enviormental friendly president.
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He the first American enviormentalist politition
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He was infuential in modern environmental ethics and also in wilderness conservation
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They conserve and restore the natural ecosystem
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This gives the president the executive order to declare a certain piece of land restricted to use.
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Continued throughout the 1930s
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Manage the nations largest forests and grass lands
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Gave people in America manual labor jobs and also help restore the enviorment
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Provides assistance to farmers in order to keep the soil healthy
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Made to stop hurting the land and to keep the soil healthy
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Made people have to buy a stamp in order to hunt different types of birds.
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Made to help conserve fish and wildlife from being depleted
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protect applicators, consumers, and the environment
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Worked with chimpanzees and studied how they interact with each other
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Said to be what started the current enviormental movement
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Law was made to stop polution into the atmosphere
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Finds different places to dump pollution rather than in places that should be protected.
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The river was very polluted and has caught fire a over a dozen times
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A law passed in order to enhance the environment
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1969-1974. He created the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and created the EPA
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Made to stop toxic waste dumps into water
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Gas prices raised 4 times in price and OPEC made people ration how much they use
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Decided on where to put solid waste
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Regulates coal mining in the US
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Found out that the elementary school and the neighborhood love canal were built on top of a nuclear waste dump and encouraged her neighbors to help her battle to get it cleaned up.
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Lois Gibbs discovered that there was polution under a neighborhood attraction called the Love Canal
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A few nuclear control rods were exposed to the atmosphere but it was not the result of any death.
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Taxed companies that had hazardist waste
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Set different parts of Alaska off as part of a national park
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He was a conservationalist but he did set over 100,000 acres of land as protected land
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A large amout of poison gas leaked out from a methyl isocyanate tank in a densely populated area
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An explosion in a chemical factory caused radiation particals to spread over all of Western Russia
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An international treaty in order to protect the ozone layer
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Large ship that spilled crude oil in Alaska. This is the second largest oil spill in US history
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Addressed using more energy efficient ways of doing things
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Law that established Death Valley, Joshua Tree National Park, and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert and not to be touched.
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Cleans up abandon hazardous waste sites
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1997-2005. An international agreement to lower the emission of greenhouse gases back to what they were in 1996.
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