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10,000 years ago
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predicted that exponential population growth would outspace linear food production, leading to starvation
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He helped preserve the Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks and he founded the Sierra club.
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The book is about the things that happened to him in a cabin near Walden Pond in the woods over a period of 2 years 2 months and 2 days. He wanted a more understanding of society while being in nature
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It said if you had never threatened the government and were over 21 and were the head of the household you could claim a federal land grant.
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It was formed in Chicago, Illinois by John Aston Warder. The association want to help balance the trees being cut down.
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It gets rid of the Timber Culture and Preemption acts. It allows the presidents to create forest preservations under the Forest Reserve act
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They want to help protect the wild life and educate people on how to protect and restore the environment.
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It prevents animals, and plants from being taken illegally sold or transported.
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10,000 years ago
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1901-1009
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He was the first cheif of the United States Forest Service and he served from 1905 to 1910. He helped to create a plan for the private interest could develop the forest on a set of terms.
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The founders of the Audubon Society are John Muir, Thomas Gilbert Pearson, and George Bird Grinnel. The Audubon Society help to protect wild birds and their eggs from being killed.
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The U.S. forest Service was founded by Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt. The U.S. forest service is apart of the US Departmant of Agriculture and it administrates the national forests and grasslands.
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He began college at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale and graduation in 1908. He influenced the movement for wilderness conservation and environmental ethnics.
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It gives the Presdient autority to prevent people from using a particular part of land.
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Started in 1930's
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This was created for unemployed civilians during the Great Depression as a work relief program
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The Soil Conservation Service helps to provides assistance to farmers, and landowners.
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It regulates grazing on public land to improve rangeland conditions
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The US federal government made hunters get a stamp in order to hunt duck and geese
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The misson of the agency is to help conserve and protect the habitats of wildlife and plants for human benefit
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She was the first Leakey's Angels to go to the Gombe Stream National Park.
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This book helped launch the contemporary environmental movement.
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Regulates the amount of pollution in the air
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This act protected 9.1 million acres of land and help to create the definition of wilderness
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This act protects wild and scenic rivers to be constructed on, to prevent from changing the wildlife's habitats
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1969-1974
He was for environmental protection -
It is one of the most polluted rivers and it has caught fire 13 times
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It established the concil of envrionmental quality.
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The EPA enforces regulations that the government makes.
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Sets up reguations on incecticides, fungicides, and rodenticides to protect the users
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When the Arab and Israeli were having problems and the price of oil was going to go up
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Roland and Molina believe that CFC's are so inert that nothing can destroy or capture them.
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The RCRA is a main federal law that regulates the disposal of solid and hazardous wates.
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It controls the effects of coal mining on the environment
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Regulates the amount of pollution released in the water.
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A city was built on top of a toxic watse site near the Love Canal and the waste got into the water and infected some people.
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The nuclear reactors had a melt down and release radioactive gases and iodine into the environment
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The CERCLA is a law that cleans up sites with hazardous things.
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It provide for national parkland and wildlife refuge system in Alaska
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1981-1989
He was against the environment -
A posionous gas got released at the local pesticides plant and the gas was spread throughout the town and killed about 3000 people.
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It is a terrible nuclear accident and the radiation spread throughout western USSR and europe
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This is a treaty to help protect the ozone layer from depleating.
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A ship carrying oil hit the Bligh Reef and it resulted in a oil spill
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It was an act that addressed energy consumption and what to do to reduce it.
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It established some national parks and reserves in the california desert like Death Valley, Mojave National Preserve, and Joshua Tree National Parks
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1997-2005
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