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Agricultural Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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John Muir
He was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist. He was one of California's most important historical personalities. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A book about simple living in natural surroundings. Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, -
Homestead Act
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Yellowstone National Park founded
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Amerian Forestry Association founded
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Yosemite plus Sequoia National Park founded
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Sierra Club founded
One of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States. It was founded on in San Francisco, California, by John Muir, who became its first president. -
Lacey Act founded
A conservation law in the United States that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported or sold. It is still in effect but has been amended several times. -
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Golden Age of conservation (Theodore Roosevelt)
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First National Wild life Refuge established
Certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The National Wildlife Refuge System is the system of public lands and waters set aside to conserve America's fish, wildlife and plants. -
US Forest Service founded
an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres. -
Aldo Leopold
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Audubon Society Founded
Audubon Society is a non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation. 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
Signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. This law gives the President of the United States the authority to, by executive order, restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government. The Act has been used over a hundred times since its passage. Its use occasionally creates significant controversy. -
Gifford Pinchot
He was an forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until he was fired in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. -
US National Park Service founded
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Civilian Conservation Corps founded
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Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
It authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp. In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. -
Taylor Grazing Act
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 Fish and Wildlife Servic is dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. The mission of the agency reads as "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
an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson. The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment, particularly on birds, of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims unquestioningly. -
Wilderness Act
It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres of federal land. The result of a long effort to protect federal wilderness and to create a formal mechanism for designating wilderness. -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
An outgrowth of the recommendations of a Presidential commission, the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission (ORRRC). 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. -
National Enviromental Policy Act (NEPA)
As one of the most emulated statutes in the world, NEPA has been called the modern-day equivalent of an “environmental Magna Carta”. -
Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire
The 1969 fire caused approximately $50,000 in damages, mostly to an adjacent railroad bridge. The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire helped spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities, resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). -
First Earth Day
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Enviromental Protection Agency established
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Clean Air Act established
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.
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Endangered Species Act
it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." -
FIFRA- Federal, Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act
It set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
OPEC and Oil Embargo
when the members of OPEC proclaimed an oil embargo. By the end of the embargo in March 1974, the price of oil had risen from $3 per barrel to nearly $12. -
Roland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
They were used in air conditioning and cooling units, as aerosol spray propellants prior to the 1970s, and in the cleaning processes of delicate electronic equipment. They also occur as by-products of some chemical processes. No significant natural sources have ever been identified for these compounds—their presence in the atmosphere is due almost entirely to human manufacture. -
RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources from discarded materials and for the safe disposal of discarded materials, and to regulate the management of hazardous waste. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. -
Clean Water Act
The objective of the Clean Water Act is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment, and maintaining the integrity of wetlands. -
Love Canal, NY
they bought land from a toxic waste buiness and the people who moved in had to eventually evalutate. -
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
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
was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster. It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other chemicals. -
CERCLA (superfund)
Superfund gives authority to federal natural resource agencies, states and Native American tribes to recover natural resource damages caused by releases of hazardous substances, and it created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry -
Chernobyl
A catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. -
Montreal Protocol
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
An oil tanker that ran aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska. On March 24, 1989, bound for Long Beach, California, the vessel ran aground on the Bligh Reef resulting in the second largest oil spill in United States history. -
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
The Desert Protection Act 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. -
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Kyoto Protocol
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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
