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Helped petition the National Park bill and helped with the creation of Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks
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Details Thoreaus life over a two year period into one single year and symbolizes human development
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Gave ownership of land at little to no cost in the western part of America
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Made to protect and restore forests to improve health of the planet
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Authorized the Presidant of the United States to establish Forest Reserves. Also repealed the Timber Culture and Preemption Acts
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Created by John Muir and its mission was to protect the wild places on Earth
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Protects plants and wildlife by giving civil and criminal penalties for many violoations
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Made to administer all of the national Forests and Grasslands in the United States
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Reformed development/management of US forests by advocating renenwel of resources by a plan
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Wrote the book A Sand County Almanac and influenced modern day Environmental Ethics
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A non-profit organization dedicated to conservation
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Gives Presidant of the United States authority to restrict use of particular public land
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Part of Roosevelt's New Deal. Acted as a public work relief program for people in need
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Carries out numerous soil surveys across the US and showed insight into developing environmental problems
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Provides for the regulation of grazing on public lands to improve rangeland conditions
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Adhesive Stamp that is required to hunt migratory birds like duck
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Agency dedicated to the management of fish, wild life and natural habitats
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Considered to be the worlds top leader in chimpanzees, known for her 45 year study of them
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Credited with starting the launch of the American Environmental movement
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Created the legal definition of wilderness and protected more than 9.1 million acres of federal land
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Allows Wild and Scenic rivers to be preserved and kept from being damned and must be kept free flowing
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Extremely Pro Environment. Multiple acts and programs were started like the Clean Air Act and EPA were started. Ended in 1974
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Helped spur the environmental movement in the 60's
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Mostly used to set up procedural requirements for all federal government agencies to prepare environmental assessments impact statements
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a US angency created to protect human health and the environment by enforcing regulations of the law
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set up pesticide regulations to protect consumers, the environment and applicators
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Limited gas consumption in numerous ways and caused the peak of oil production by the US in the 70's
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Organic compounds made of carbon, chlorine and flourine made into a dervitive of methane and ethane
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Princepal federal law that governs disposal of solid and hazardous waste
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eliminates release of high amounts of toxic substances into water
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regulates the environmental effect of coal mining in the US
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A chemical waste dump was sold to make Schools on despite warnings and many health problems were caused.
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The worst commerical nuclear accident in US history. Luckily not one recorded case of cancer has occured becaue of it
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Gave 43,585,000 acres of new national parklands in Alaska. 53,720,000 acres to the National Wildlife Refuge System and twenty-five wild and scenic rivers
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Designed to clean up hazardous sites, created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry also gives authority to clean up waste that can hurth the environment or public health
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Regan was largely veiwed as being against helping the environment. Most people dont know he gave more than 100,000 acres to conserve while he was mayor of California. Its thought that he just didnt want to waste US money. Presidancy ended in 1989
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A gas leak of toxic cloud causes what is thought to be the worst industral disaster. Kills thousands of people and injurs hundreds of thousands
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A fire causes a nuclear power plant to explode, releasing particles of radiation into the atmospher and covers most of Europe and the then USSR
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An international treaty to help protect the ozone by ending production of numerous things that hurt the ozone
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An oil tanker that dropped hunderds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska. The second largest oil spill in history
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addressed energy effeciany, energy conservation and energy management. Reformed the Public Utility Holding Company Act
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stablished the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert
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An international treaty signed to reduce remissions of green house gasses by industrial countries
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