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Environmental Law Timeline Melissa Wu and Isabel DuBois

By LlamaShama

  • The Lacey Act

    The Lacey Act
    The Lacey Act prohibits transportation of illegally obtained animals. This helps more animals survive and helps speces survive and less become thretaned by extinction.

  • The First National Wildlife Refuge

    The First National Wildlife Refuge
    This act protects the Brown Pelican. It caused more national refuges to spring up, helping more animals.

  • Civilian Concervation Corps

    Civilian Concervation Corps
    This gives people jobs during the Great Depression. "Roosevelt's Tree Army" protected the destruction of natural resources. This helps people get jobs and animals regain habitat that they had previously lost.

  • Species at the Brink of Extinction

    Species at the Brink of Extinction
    Pollution and habitat destruction causes several species to be at the brink of extinction. This impacts the lack of species and shows humans the effects of over use and hunting.

  • The Wilderness Act

    The Wilderness Act
    Air pollution killed about 300 people and there is no construction done in New York. The Wilderness Act causes awareness in air pollution.

  • The First Recycling Act in Oregon

    The First Recycling Act in Oregon
    Oregon passes the first recycling act for plastic drinking bottles. This helps the environment and world.

  • Yellow Stone

    Yellow Stone
    Yellow Stone is the first national park in the world. The impact of this is that more species will be protected and more plants and trees will be saved.

  • NASA Warns the Congress

    NASA Warns the Congress
    NASA warns the Congress about the effects of global warming. This helps the Congress become more aware of the effects to the enviorment and to there health.

  • Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
    The Exxon oil spill dumps 11 million gallons of oil. Devastated, Prince William causes more awareness to the dangers of pollution to plants,animals, and humans.

  • The Julia Butterfly Hill

    The Julia Butterfly Hill
    The Julia Butterfly Hill sits at the top of her tree, by herself for 735 days. To save the ancient Redwood trees in that forest, she was shot at, arrested , threatend to be killed, got frost bite, and fractured her foot. But she never came down from her perch on Luna.

  • The Great Lakes Compact

    The Great Lakes Compact
    This prevents distribution and sale of water to non regions. It makes people more aware of the water distribution.