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Yellowstone Act
Congress declared Yellowstone a national park, dedicated as public grounds preserving it from injury. Yellowstone was the first park and became the first of many that provided a popular attraction and a safe haven for animals. -
Lacey Act
Prohibits transportation of illegally obtained animals and importation of wildlife killed, purchased, or collected in violation of the law. This Act prevented people from hunting in places like Yellowstone set aside to help wilderness and prevented transportation and importation of wildlife collected illegally. There are now many places world wide where hunting is prohibited in order to protect wildlife. -
National Park Service Established
The National Park service is established to preserve land for the future. Large areas of land were preserved for future American citizens to enjoy and learn about and today national parks take up 4% of the U.S and 84.6 billion acres of land. -
Bald Eagle Preservation Act
The Bald Eagle Preservation Act was passed to protect our nation's symbol. The Eagle who is our nation’s symbol was almost extinct but the preservation act saved it and the Bald Eagle was able to be taken off of the Endangered Species List in 2007. -
Antarctic Treaty
Protects Antarctica from the dumping of polluting chemicals, oils, and nuclear waste. Since then 46 states including the U.S and the former Soviet Union have signed the treaty. -
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson wrote the book Silent Spring warning people about the negative effects of pesticides (especially DDT). People were made aware that pesticides were harming plants, animals, the environment, and humans and became more cautious of what they were using on the earth. The government banned DDT and many other very harmful pesticides from use. -
Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act is passed creating the National Wilderness Preservation System to secure for the American people the enduring resource of wilderness and wilderness of different climates was preserved for people in the future to be able to experience and enjoy. There are now many beautiful places that people can visit and enjoy as a pleasant activity. -
Cuyahoga River
Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River ignited due to large amounts of chemicals and pollution on the surface of the river.TIME magazine published an article about the horrific event and people all around the world were made aware of pollution problems that were vastly appearing. -
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act was created to protect known endangered animals from extinction. It protected endangered animals whose population were decreasing from becoming extinct as had happened to animals before the act was passed. Animals whose population decrease are now put on the Endangered Species List and are protected while their number increases. -
Safe Drinking Water Act
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed to assure Americans protection from contaminated drinking water. It protected the U.S’s water from contamination thus protecting citizens from contracting disease and infection from their drinking water. To this day the EPA still regulates public drinking water as a result of the Act.
