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10,00 years ago : Agricultural revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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John Muir
Born April 21, 1838, Scottish American naturalist, authour, environmental philosopher and early advocate of perservation of wilderness in the U.S. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A Reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, -
Homestead Act
Signed on May 20, 1862. Stated anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S government, was 21+, or head of a family, could file an applicatin to claim a federal land grant. -
Sierra Club founded
An environmental organizatin in the U.S that was founded by John Muir, Motto is to explore, enjoy and protect the planet. -
Yellowstone National Park founded
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American Forestry Association founded
American Forests is a non-profit conservation organization established in 1875, and dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy forest ecosystems. -
Yosemite plus Sequoia National Park Founded
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General Revision Act
Federal legislation initiative sighned in 1891. Reversed privious policy initiatives, such as the Timber Culture Act of 1873, in which land fraud was readily accessible on behalf of wealthy individuals/ corps. -
Lacey Act
A conservation law in the U.S that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, trasported or sold. -
First national wildlife refuge established
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Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. -
Golden Age of Conservation
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U.S forest Service founded
Agency of the U.S department of agriculture that administers that the nations 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres. -
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold was an American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. -
Audubon Society founded
The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Located in the United States and incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and uses science, education and grassroots advocacy to advance its conservation mission. -
Antiquities Act
The Antiquities Act is the first law to establish that archeological sites on public lands are important public resources. -
Congress became upset becuase Roosevelt was waving s omuch forst land so they banned futher withdrawls
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U.S National Park service founded
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Dust Bowl
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Civilian Conservation Service founded
he Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. Originally for young men ages 18–23, it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17–28. -
Soil Conservation Service founded
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service, is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act, or the "Duck Stamp Act," as this March 16, 1934, authority is commonly called, requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp. Receipts from the sale of the stamp are deposited in a special Treasury account known as the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund and are not subject to appropriations. A contest is held each year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to select the design of the stamp. -
Taylor Grazing Act
The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 (P.L. 73-482) is 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. -
Fish plus wildlife service founded
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is an agency of federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior which is dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. The mission of the agency is "working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people." -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962. The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. -
Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act, signed into law in 1964, created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
The National Wild and Scenic River is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States. -
NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The law was enacted on January 1, 1970. -
Cuyahoga River in Clevelend,Ohio, Catches fire
The river is famous for being "the river that caught fire," helping to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960s. Native Americans called this winding water "Kahyonhá:ke," which means "on the river" or "at the river" in Mohawk. -
Environmental Protection Agency established
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First Earth Day
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Endangered Species Act
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OPEC oil embargo
The 1973 oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC, consisting of the Arab members of the OPEC plus Egypt and Syria) proclaimed an oil embargo. By the end of the embargo in March 1974,[1] the price of oil had risen from $3 per barrel to nearly $12. The oil crisis, or "shock", had many short-term and long-term effects on global politics and the global economy.[2] It was later called the "first oil shock", followed by the 197 -
Roland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
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RCRA(Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave." This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. -
Clear Air Act
The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands. -
Love Canal, NY (toxic waste leaks into residential houses)
Breaches combined with particularly heavy rainstorms released and spread the chemical waste, leading to a public health emergency and an urban planning scandal. In what became a test case for liability clauses, Hooker Chemical was found to be "negligent" in their disposal of waste, though not reckless in the sale of the land. -
3 Mile Island Nuclear accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. -
Alaskan Lands Act
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) is a United States federal law passed on November 12, 1980 by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 2 of that year.[1] ANILCA provided varying degrees of special protection to over 157,000,000 acres of land, including national parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments, wild and scenic rivers, recreational areas, national forests, and conservation areas. -
Bhopal, Indian (chemical toxic cloud kills 2,000)
The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster.[1] -
Chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. -
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. -
Exxon Valdez
Oriental Nicety, formerly Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mediterranean, SeaRiver Mediterranean, S/R Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Dong Fang Ocean, was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska. On March 24, 1989, while owned by the former Exxon Shipping Company, and captained by Joseph Hazelwood and First Mate James Kunkel[5] bound for Long Beach, California, the vessel ran aground on the Bligh Reef -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
The Energy Policy Act is a United States government act. It was passed by Congress and set goals, created mandates, and amended utility laws to increase clean energy use and improve overall energy efficiency in the United States. -
Desert Protection Act
he California Desert Protection Act of 1994 is a federal law, signed by President Bill Clinton, and passed by the United States Congress on October 8, 1994, that established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert. -
World Population hits 6 billion
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Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty, which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) man-made CO2 emissions have caused it. -
World Population hits 7 billion
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Kashiwazaki- Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, Japan
