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Agricultural Revolution
People began hunting large animals for food to survive, this is where the basis of human life comes from -
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Envrironmental History
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Industrial Revolution
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John Muir
Early advocate for wildlife conservation -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A book describing the importance of nature -
Homestead Act
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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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Lacey Act
Act prohibiting people from exporting natural living goods from country to country to keep them from becoming invasive species -
Sierra Club Founded
One of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the U.S. -
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Golden Age of Conservation founded by Teddy Roosevelt
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First National Wildlife Refugee Established
Established at Pelican Island in Florida -
U.S. Forest Service Founded
Government enforcement department focused on the upkeep and assurance of healthy forests -
Gifford Pincott
Acted as first Chief of National Forest Service -
Aldo Leopold
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Audubon Society Founded
An American Non-profit, Environmental organization dedicated to conservation focusing on plants, birds, etc. -
Antiquities Act
The first United States Law to provide protection to any kind of cultural or natural resource -
US National Park Service Founded
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Taylor Grazing Act
Intended to stop injury to public grazing lands -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Anybody Over 16 YO must carry a Duck Stamp in order to hunt for ducks or other water fowl -
Fish plus Wildlife Service Founded
A government agency dedicated to the conservation of Fish, Wildlife, and other natural Habitats -
Silent Spring Published by Rachel Carson
Exposed the hazards of pesticide DDT -
Wilderness Act
The result of a long effort to protect federal wilderness and to create a formal mechanism for designating wilderness -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Establishes a National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and prescibes th emethods and standards through which additional rivers may be identifed and added to the system -
Cuyahoga River in Ohio Caught Fire
River caught fire due to the extremely high amounts of water pollution found in the water -
National Environmental Policy Act
Requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions. -
First Earth Day
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Environmental Protection Agency Established
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Clean Air Act Established
The comprehensive national law that regulates air emmisions from stationary and mobile sources -
Endangered Species Act
Protect crippled populations of certain species from extinction -
FIFRA Control Act
Federal Agency made to regulate sale, production, and distribution of harmful pesticides -
OPEC and Oil Embargo
An embargo placed on oil by middle eastern oil companies which led to a shortage of oil in the united states -
Roland and Molina announce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
Announcement that the ozone layer was being depleted at an incredible rate -
RCRA
Protects human health and the environment from the hazards of pollution -
Clean Water Act
Regulates discharges of pollutants into the water -
Surface mining Control and Reclamation Act
The primary environmental law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the US -
Love Canal, NY
Hazardous waste was deposited into the canal and put both the environment and humans into harms way -
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
A partial nuclear meltdown that occured in one of the two nuclear reactors on the island -
Bhopal, Island
A gas leak at a pesticide plant in india where over 2000 people were killed in their shanty towns -
Chernobyl
An explosion at a nuclear site in the Ukraine which sent large amounts of radiation into the air affecting thousands of people -
CERCLA
A collection of tax money going towards collecting, removing, cleaning up or destroying environmentally hazardous areas -
Montreal Protocol
International treaty designed to protect the ozone -
Exxon Valdez
An oil tanker hit a reef of the coast of alaska sending millions of gallons of oil spewing into the sea -
Energy Policy Act
An act passed by congress to set goals, create mandates, and amend utility laws to increase clean energy use and improve overall energy efficiency in the US -
Desert Protection Act
Establishs Deserts in the US to be National Parks and have the same treatment as national parks do. -
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Kyoto Protocol
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Worlds Population hits 6 Billion
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IPCC Report on Climate Change
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill