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People began hunting large animals for food to survive, this is where the basis of human life comes from
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Early advocate for wildlife conservation
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A book describing the importance of nature
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Act prohibiting people from exporting natural living goods from country to country to keep them from becoming invasive species
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One of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the U.S.
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Established at Pelican Island in Florida
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Government enforcement department focused on the upkeep and assurance of healthy forests
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Acted as first Chief of National Forest Service
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An American Non-profit, Environmental organization dedicated to conservation focusing on plants, birds, etc.
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The first United States Law to provide protection to any kind of cultural or natural resource
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Intended to stop injury to public grazing lands
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Anybody Over 16 YO must carry a Duck Stamp in order to hunt for ducks or other water fowl
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A government agency dedicated to the conservation of Fish, Wildlife, and other natural Habitats
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Exposed the hazards of pesticide DDT
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The result of a long effort to protect federal wilderness and to create a formal mechanism for designating wilderness
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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
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River caught fire due to the extremely high amounts of water pollution found in the water
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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.
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The comprehensive national law that regulates air emmisions from stationary and mobile sources
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Protect crippled populations of certain species from extinction
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Federal Agency made to regulate sale, production, and distribution of harmful pesticides
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An embargo placed on oil by middle eastern oil companies which led to a shortage of oil in the united states
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Announcement that the ozone layer was being depleted at an incredible rate
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Protects human health and the environment from the hazards of pollution
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Regulates discharges of pollutants into the water
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The primary environmental law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the US
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Hazardous waste was deposited into the canal and put both the environment and humans into harms way
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A partial nuclear meltdown that occured in one of the two nuclear reactors on the island
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A gas leak at a pesticide plant in india where over 2000 people were killed in their shanty towns
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An explosion at a nuclear site in the Ukraine which sent large amounts of radiation into the air affecting thousands of people
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A collection of tax money going towards collecting, removing, cleaning up or destroying environmentally hazardous areas
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International treaty designed to protect the ozone
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An oil tanker hit a reef of the coast of alaska sending millions of gallons of oil spewing into the sea
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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
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Establishs Deserts in the US to be National Parks and have the same treatment as national parks do.
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