Environmental Timeline

By Anthony Chiarelli
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    Environmental Events

  • John Muir is born

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

  • Yellowstone National Park founded

  • American Forestry Association founded

  • Yosemite plus Sequoia National Park founded

  • Sierra Club founded

  • Lacey Act

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    Golden Age of Conservation (Theodore Roosevelt)

  • First national wildlife refuge established

  • Audubon Society founded

  • U.S. forest Service founded

  • Antiquities Act

  • Aldo Leopold

  • U.S. National Park service founded

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    Dust Bowl

  • Civilian Conservation Corps founded

  • Soil Conservation Service founded

  • Taylor Grazing Act

  • Fish plus Wildlife Service founded

  • Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson

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    Clean Air Act

    63, 65, 70, 77, 90

  • Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire

  • NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)

  • First Earth Day

  • Environmental Protection Agency established

  • Endangered Species Act

  • OPEC oil embargo

  • Roland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFC*s are depleting the ozone layer

  • RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)

  • Clean Water Act

  • Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

  • Love Canal, NY (toxic waste leaks into residential houses)

  • 3 Mile Island Nuclear accident

  • Bhopal, Indian (chemical toxic cloud kills 2,000)

  • Chernobyl

  • Montreal Protocol

  • Exxon Valdez

  • Energy Policy Act of 1992

  • Desert Protection Act

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    Kyoto Protocol