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Jan 1, 1000
Agriculture Revolution
The Argricultural Revolution -
Industrial Revolution
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John Muir
John Muir was important because of his idea of glacation. he was also important becausehe was anaearly advocate of preservation of wilderness. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walden was an Amrican book written by Henry David Thoreau. The book was based on a reflection of simple living in a natural surroundings. -
Homestead Act
Put into law by President Abraham Lincoln -
Yellowstone National Park founded
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American Forestry Association Founded
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Yosemite plus Sequoia National Park founded
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Sierra Club founded
founded by Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and David Brower. The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots enviromental organizations in the United States. -
Lacey Act founded
The law was passed by President William McKinley. It protects both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for those who violate the rules and regulations. -
Golden Age of Conservation
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First National Wild Life Refuge established
The National Wild Life Refuge is a designation to areas in the United States that are protected and managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Services. This is over 150 million acres. -
US Forest Service founded
This is a agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administirs the nation's 155 national parks and 20 national grasslands. this is over 193 million acres. -
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service. He promoted scientific forestry and other natural resources. -
Aldo Leopold
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Audubon Society founded
The Audubon Society wias put in place for the protection of gulls, terns, egrets, herons, and other waterbirds high on its conservation priority list. This protection of wildbirds and animals was founded in New York City. -
Antiquities Act
This law gives the President of the United States the authority to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government. This law was passed by Theodore Roosevelt. -
US National Park Service founded
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Civilian Conservation Corps founded
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Taylor Grazing Act
The Taylor Grazing Act is a United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use. Passed by Herbert Hoover. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp. All funds are used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. -
Fish plus Wildlife Service fiounded
This is a federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. The mission is to conserve, protect, and enhance these habitats. -
Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres. -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
National Wild and Scenic River is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States. Among other things, the commission recommended that the nation protect wild rivers and scenic rivers from development that would substantially change their wild or scenic nature. -
Cuyhoga River in Ohio caught 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 "Cuyahoga," which means "crooked river" in an Iroquoian language. -
First Earth Day
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Clean Air Act established
The enactment of the Clean Air Act of 1970 (1970 CAA) resulted in a major shift in the federal government's role in air pollution control. This legislation authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources. -
National Enviromental Policy Act
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Endangered Speices Act
An act to provide for the conservation of endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants, and for other purposes. -
OPEC and Oil Embargo
OPEC is an international organization and economic cartel whose mission is to coordinate the policies of the oil-producing countries. The goal is to secure a steady income to the member states and to collude in influencing world oil prices through economic means. -
FIFRA Act
The objective of FIFRA is to provide federal control of pesticide distribution, sale, and use. All pesticides used in the United States must be registered (licensed) by EPA. -
Roland and Molina annouce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth's stratosphere (the ozone layer), and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions. -
RCRA
RCRA is our nation’s primary law governing the disposal of solid and hazardous waste. Congress passed RCRA on October 21, 1976 to address the increasing problems the nation faced from our growing volume of municipal and industrial waste. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclmation 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. -
Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. -
Love Canal, NY
Love Canal became the subject of national and international attention after it was revealed in the press that the site had formerly been used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical Company. -
Three 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. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. -
Bhopal, Island
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. Over 500,000 people were exposed to the gases and chemicals. -
Chernobyl
Chernobyl was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. -
CERCLA
Superfund or Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) is a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances as well as broadly define "pollutants or contaminants" -
Montreal Protocal
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
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. -
Energy Policy 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
This was 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 -
Kyoto Protocal
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World Population hits 6 billion
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IPCC Report on climate change
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
