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Summer 2013 Wildlife History Timeline

By J Dunlap

  • Darwin sets sail on HMS Beagle

  • "Nation's Park" proposed by artist George Caitlin after travels in western wilderness

  • Thoreau's Walden published, establishing genre of nature writing

  • 1855 Painter Asher Durand calls for new genre of American wilderness painting

  • Yosemite recorded by camera by Carleton Watkins

  • Central Park in New York City completed

  • Term "Ecology" coined by German biologist Ernest Haekel

  • Yellowstone founded as first National Park

  • Field and Stream, magazine for fishers and hunters, founded

  • Boone and Crocket Club founded Theodore Roosevelt & others

  • Aldo Leopold's birthday

  • Lacey Act originally limits commercial trafficing of birds across state lines

  • Yale Forestry School Founded

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  • 1st National Wildlife Refuge created by President Theodore Roosevelt

  • Last known passenger pigeon dies in zoo

  • Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918

  • First easy to use bird field guide popularizes bird watching (Roger Tory Peterson's guide)

  • Bottlenosed dolphins exhibited for entertainment at zoos and aquariums

  • 1st Earth Day

    Learn about Earth Day & its founder here.

  • Endangered Species Act passed

  • Jaws movie released to public

  • TEDs, or turtle excluder devices, become available for shrimp fishers to protect sea turtles

  • Red wolf captive propagation program developed by Fish & Wildlife Service and Point Defiance Zoo

  • African Elephant Conservation Act

  • Shad conservation & education program initiatied by Maryland teacher Sandy Burke

  • Cross River Gorillas protected with regional action plan from World Association of Zoos and Aquariums

  • Polar Bears listed as threatened under US Endangered Species Act

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