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Agricultural Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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John Muir is Born
John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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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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Sierra Club Founded
One of the oldest and largest grassroots enviorments. -
Lacey Act Founded
Helps protect plants and wildlife by enabling criminal acts for those who violate the rules. -
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Golden Age of Conservation
Theodore Roosevelt. -
First National Wildlife Refuge Established
Established by an executive order made by President Theodore Roosevelt. -
Aldo Leopold
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Audubon Society Founded
Audubon is a waterbird conservation. -
US Forest Service Founded
Created to check the quality of forests in the United States. -
Gifford Pinchot
An American forester and politician. -
Antiquities Act
An act for the preservation of American antiquities -
U.S. National Park Founded
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Civilian Conservation Corps Founded.
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Taylor Grazing Act
Federal law that regulates grazing on public lands. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act cis when conservationists became alarmed by a rapid decrease in wild ducks and geese. -
Fish plus Wildlife Service Founded
The object of this service is protect fish and othe rforms of wildlife. -
Silent SPring published by Rachel Carson
THis book documents the damaging affects of pestisides on the earth especially birds. -
Wilderness Act
An area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
A designation for certain protected areas in the United States. -
Naional Enviormental Policy Act (NEPA)
A law that promotes the enhancement of the enviorment. -
Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire
This river was damaged by pollution prior to the fire. -
First Earth Day
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Clean Air Act Established (Revised 63,65,70,77,90)
Passed to protect public health and welfare from different air polutions. -
Enviormental Protection agency established
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OPEC and Oil Embargo
Raised oil prices because of the Korean war. -
Endangered Species Act
Helped proved for the ecosystems that were endanger of dying off. -
FIRFA- Federal,Insecticide,Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act
(Revised 72,75,78,88) Gave the United Sates Depatment of Agrigukture the responsibility to control and monitor pestisides. -
Roland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer.
The less ozone there is the less protection there is forvthe earth and everyone on earth. -
RCRA (Resource Conservationand Recovery Act)
The ultimate goal is to protect human health. -
Clean Water Act
Established to make water healthier for Americans -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
The primary federal law that regulates the effect of coal mining on the U.S. -
Love Canal,NY
Where a company disposed of waste improperly and later caused a public health emergency. -
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
A nuclear plant had a leak which went undetected and it melted one of the reactors. -
Bhopal Island
A major gas leak that killed a lot of people in India. -
Chernobyl
The worst nuclear accident in history, plant located in the Ukraine. -
CERCLA (Superfund)
The Comprehensive Enviormental Response provides a fund to clean up waste. -
Montreal Protocol
An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer. -
Exxon Valdez
ANn oil spill that spilt 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound. -
Energy Policy Act
Required some federal and state fleets to have alternative fuels. -
Desert Protection Act
This act established 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
