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Agricultural Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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John Muir is born
Created Yosemite National Park. Often called "The father of our National Park System" -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A transcendentalist Book. It talks about how living in the woods is better than living with society. -
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
Created by John Muir and it promotes green policies. -
Lacey Act Founded
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Golden Age of Conservation
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First National Wildlife Refuge Established
Established certain areas of the US for environmental Protection. -
US Forest Service Founded
Administers harvesting and development of the Nations 155 National Forests and 20 National Grasslands, -
Gifford Pinchot
Served as the first chief of the US Forest Service,and is known for reforming the managment and developement of forests in the US and for advocating the conservation of the nation's reserves by planning how to use it and how to allow it to renew. -
Aldo Leopold
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Audubon Society Founded
Uses science, education and grassroots advocacy to advance in conservation of birds, wildlife, and healthy ecosystems. -
Antiquities Act
Gives the President the power to restrict the public land in use by the Federal Government. -
US National Park Service Founded
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Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Required those of age 16 and above to get a hunting liscence for hunting ducks and other birds. -
Civilian Conservation Corps Founded
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Taylor Grazing Act
Provides regulation of grazing on public lands. -
Fish Plus Wildlife Service Founded
Federal Government Agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. -
Silent Spring, publlished by Rachel Carson
Book written about the effects of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. -
Wilderness Act
Created the Legal of Wilderness and protected 9.1 million acres of federal land. -
Clean Air Act Established
Designed to control Air Polution on a National Level. -
Wild and Scenic rivers Act
Protects Rivers from destruction that would destroy their wild and scenic nature. -
Cuyahoga rier in Ohio Caught Fire
Fire on the Cuyahoga river that helped the Environmental movements in the 1960's. -
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Established a U.S. National policy promoting the enhancement of the environment and also established the Presidents Council on Environmental Quality. -
First Earth Day
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Environmental Protection Agency Established
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FIFRA –Federal, Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act
Created to monitor pesticide sales and types of pesticides for human and wildlfie safety. -
OPEC and Oil Embargo
OPEC was created to coordinate the policies of Oil-producing countries, and to try and regulate oil prices throughout the world. -
Endangered Species Act
Created to try and stall the trend towards causing certain species of wildlife becoming extinct, caused by human interactions with the wildlife. -
Roland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFC’s are depleting the ozone layer
CFC's are things like deodorant and things used to keep milk cold and clean ovens. We found out that the chemicals prodcued by CFC's were going to the Ozone and causing the Ozone to break down which can cause more UV rays to enter the earth which could cause a lot more diseases caused by UV Rays. -
RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
Governs the disposal of hazardous waste and solid waste. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the U.S. -
Clean Water Act
The Acts' purpose is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing pollution and to provide assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment, and to maintain the integrity of wetlands. -
Love Canal, NY
A town that was sitting on top of 21,000 tons of buried chemcial waste. Was causing miscarriages and death of wildlife. -
3 Mile Island Nuclear Accident
An incident when Nuclear Coolant reactants started leaking due to a stuck open valve in a Nuclear Plant. Nothing really happened as they were able to get it under control, but the event did cause a sudden creation of Regulations that regulated Nuclear Plant procedures. Some of the chemical was released into the area but they spent 1 billion and 14 years cleaning it up and no harm was done to the environment. -
CERCLA(Suerfund)
A law that was created as a basis for cleaning up Hazardous waste -
Bhopal Island
Another disaster where a gas leak occured. 500,000 people were exposed to Methyl Isocyanate gas and other chemicals. Total deaths were 3,787 but 16,000 deaths were claimed. It also resulted in 558,125 injuries. -
Chernobyl
One of 2 Nuclear disasters that is a 7 on the International Nuclear Even Scale. It was an explosion and fire that released heavy amounts of Nuclear chemicals throughout much of the western USSR and Europe. People are still being effected by the events today, and 31 people died during the event. -
Montreal Protocol
Created to try and help protect the Ozone Layer by phasing out chemcials and substances that are known to cause the Ozone to deplete. -
Exxon Valdez
Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The Spill covered evenutally 1,300 miles of coastline. -
Energy Policy Act
It set goals, mandates, and amended utility laws to increase clean energy use and imporove overall energy efficiency in the U.S. -
Desert Protection Act
Established Death Valley and the Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve and the California Desert. -
Kyoto Protocol
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World Populatoin hits 6 billion
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IPCC Report on Climate Change
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
