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Agricultural Revolution
Date: 10,000 BC- 2000 BC
Description: The Agricultural Revolution consisted of the transforming from hunting to farming. It was also known as the Neolithic Revolution. It provided many benefits like more livestock and improved crop yield.
Source: https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-agricultural-revolution-timeline-causes-inventions-effects.html
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Industrial Revolution
Date: 1760- 1840
Description: The Industrial Revolution was an era when the agricultural society evolved into industrialization. It included things like the cotton gin, the transcontinental railroad, and even electricity.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution
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John Muir birth and what he founded
Date: April 21st, 1838
Description: John Muir founded the Sierra Club, which was an environmental organization. He also helped establish Sequoia and the Yosemite National Parks.
Source: https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/
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Walden by Thoreau
Date: August 9th, 1854
Description: Henry David Thoreau wrote the book, Walden, in 1854. It was about living surrounded by nature in his cabin. It reflected and emphasized the observations he made about nature.
Source: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/90/walden-or-life-in-the-woods/
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Homestead Act
Date: May 20th, 1862
Description: The Homestead Act was a program which was made to give farmers public land at a lower price. It was signed by Abraham Lincoln. The applicant had to be 21 or older, as well as the head of the household.
Source: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-homestead-act
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Gifford Pinchot
Date: August 11th, 1865
Description: Gifford Pinchot was America’s first forester and developed a national park after his name. He also a very powerful conservation movement. He was also the 28th governor of Pennsylvania.
Source: https://www.doi.gov/blog/gifford-pinchot-legacy-conservation
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Yellowstone Park founded
Date: March 1st, 1872
Description: The Yellowstone Park was the very first national park . Yellowstone was the start for more natural reserves to be made under the government's permission.
Source: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/historyculture/yellowstoneestablishment.htm
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American Forestry Association founded
Date: September 1875
Description: The American Forestry Association is an organization which has helped to preserve our natural parks. John Aston Warder founded the organization.
Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=American+Forestry+Association+founded&rl
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Aldo Leopold
Date: January 11, 1887
Description: Aldo Leopold was a conservationist, forester, and ecologist who was very concerned with the nature of industrialization on the natural world. He also wrote many books concerning with the preserving of ecosystems.
Source: https://www.aldoleopold.org/
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General Revision Act
Date: 1891
Description: Benjamin Harrison signed the General Revision Act. It was an outline that expressed Congress’s right to reserve public land from being monopolized by rich families or corporations.
Source: https://envirotimeline.wordpress.com/1891/01/01/general-revision-act/
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Sierra Club founded
Date: May 28th, 1892
Description: The Sierra Club was founded by John Muir in 1892. It is the largest environmental organization today. It has protected many wild areas, as well as has come up with new ideas to improve the ecosystem.
Source: http://vault.sierraclub.org/history/timeline.aspx
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Lacey Act
Date: 1900
Description: The Lacey act is a law which protects plants and wildlife by creating rules if any penalties arise. It also protects the trade within animals and plants that have been taken illegally.
Source: http://forestlegality.org/policy/us-lacey-act
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Golden Age of Conservation
Date: 1901-1908
Description: With the Golden Age of Conservation, the president, Theodore Roosevelt, had permission to designate public land as federal wildlife reserves. He tripled the size of national reserve. He made it his goal to protect as much land as he could.
Source: https://www.sutori.com/item/1901-1909-now-called-the-golden-age-of-conservation-theodore-roosevelt-made-i-9986
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First national wildlife refuge established
Date: March 14th, 1903
Description: The first national wildlife refuge was established by Theodore Roosevelt, which was the Pelican Island. It was created to protect birds from extinction.
Source: https://www.fws.gov/refuges/friends/history.html
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Audubon Society founded
Date: 1905
Description: The National Audubon Society is an organization which is used to try and advance the conservation mission by using science and education. It’s one of the older organizations that are still used today for conservation.
Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=Audubon+Society+founded&rlz=1CAQZUX_
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Us forest service founded
Date: February 1st, 1905
Description: The US forest service is one of the largest forestry organizations in the world. It manages public lands in national forests, as well as grasslands. It was first established to provide better water and timber for the lands.
Source: https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1602.html
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Antiquities Act
Date: June 8th, 1906
Description: The Antiques Act did many things. For example, it protects the prehistoric data in the Southwest. It gave presidents the authority to reserve historic landmarks on lands owned by the United States. They would be seen as national monuments.
Source: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/legal/american-antiquities-act-of-1906.htm
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Us National Park Service founded
Date: August 25th, 1916
Description: The National Park Service manages thousands of parks, monuments, and historical sights which are under the federal law. The different sights were monitored by different authorities back then.
Source: https://www.nps.gov/articles/npshistory-creation.htm
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Dust Bowl
Date: 1930’s- 1940’s.
Description: The dust bowl was a very serious disaster which hit the midwest in the 1930’s and lasted up to the 1940’s. It consisted of winds and dark clouds: It destroyed livestock and caused an infection called Pneumonia in children.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl
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Civilian Conservation Corps founded
Date: April 5th, 1933
Description: The CCC, or Civilian Conservation Corps, was a work program which gave millions of men employment during the Great Depression. The employment consists of environmental projects.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/civilian-conservatio
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Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Date: March 16th, 1934
Description: The Stamp Act is required for waterfowl hunters to purchase in order to stop the destruction of wetlands. It also helps save the duck, geese, or other larger birds.
Source: https://www.fws.gov/birds/get-involved/duck-stamp/history-of-the-federal-duck-stamp.php
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Taylor Grazing Act
Date: June 28th, 1934
Description: The Taylor Grazing Act was passed to stop overgrazing. It converted rangelands to a permit based system in order to limit the number of animals grazing in one area.
Source: https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/leasing-public-range-taylor-grazing-act-and-blm
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Soil Conservation founded
Date: April 27th, 1935
Description: This act has to do with soil erosion problems. It has discovered many soil conservation problems like Soil Salinity Control. It’s function is to basically discover soil problems such as erosion.
Source: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/about/history/?cid=nrcs143_021392
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OPEC
Date: September 1960
Description: Countries that produce oil get together to make the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It controls the amount of oil each country can produce.
Source: https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/25.htm
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Silent Spring/Rachel Carson
Date: September 27th, 1962
Description: Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, explained how harsh chemicals were causing many medical problems for people, hurting animal populations, as well as polluting the streams. The book lead to the awareness of environmental issues.
Source: https://www.biography.com/people/rachel-carson-9239741
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Wilderness Act
Date: September 3rd, 1964
Description: The Wilderness Act is a bill which created the ability to protect wildlands for future generations. Since 1964, more than 100 million acres have been put aside for the development of the wilderness system.
Source: https://www.wilderness.net/nwps/legisact
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Date: October 2nd, 1968
Description: An act passed by Congress to keep rivers clean so they will last longer in later years.
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Cuyahoga River in Cleveland Ohio catching fire
Date: June 1969
Description: The Cuyahoga River caught on fire from oil pollution which was building up in June. The damage of two railroads bridges caused thousands of dollars.
Source: https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/63
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NEPA
Date: January 1st, 1970
Description: The National Environment Policy Act was made to help ensure the government is making smart decisions in any actions that wold impact the environment.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-national-environmental-policy-act
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Clean Air Act
Date: 1970
Description: The clean air act is a law which is used to ensure air pollution is controlled throughout the nation.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-air-act
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CFC’s depleting ozone
Date: 1970
Description: CFC's are chlorofluorocarbons which go up to the stratosphere and it releases chlorine atoms that react with oone moleules. CFC's cause the depletion of the ozone layer.
Source: http://www.theozonehole.com/cfc.htm
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First Earth Day
Date: April 22nd, 1970
Description: Gaylord Nelson was the US Senator, as well as an activist for the enviormental movement. He established the first earth day in order to make it more known and attract more attention.
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Environmental Protection Agency established
Date: December 2nd, 1970
Description: The Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for making sure the safety of environmental and human health. It's also a federal government.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Environmental-Protection-Agency
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Clean Water Act
Date: 1972
Description: The Clean Water Act was known as Federal Water Pollution Control Act. It ensures that pollutants in waters, rivers, wetlands, or other water areas are controlled.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-water-act
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Endangered Species Act
Date: December 28th, 1973
Description: The Endangered Species Act was an act that created a system of protection for threatened animals, as well as the habitats they live in.
Source: https://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/
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RCRA
Date: October 21st, 1976
Description: The RCRA is known as Resouce Conservation and Recovery Act. It makes sure that waste is being taken care of the right way.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/rcra
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Surface mining Contol and Reclamation Act
Date: 1977
Description: This law controls how coal mining affects enviorment by overseeing coal mines.
Source:https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/surfmin.html
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Love Canal, Ny
Date: 1978
Description: The Love Canal was a communing of houses. The houses sat on top of thousands of underground waste. They began to become apparent in backyards and cellars, which lead to people selling their houses to government and moving.
Source:https://www.geneseo.edu/history/love_canal_history
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3 mile island nuclear accident
Date: 1979
Description: In Pennsylvania a nuclear power plant caused a reacter to release radioactive gas. It caused concerns about radiation effects in the area.
Source:https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html
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Bhopal chemical toxic cloud
Date:1979
Description: In India, 30 tons of methyl iscyanate was released along with other gasses which was exposed around 600,000 people. There were many deaths.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-30-years-later/100864/
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CERCLA
Date: 1980
Description: CERCLA is also known as The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act/ Superfund was created to tax chemical and petroleum industries.
Source:https://www.hazardouswasteexperts.com/what-is-cercla-and-why-is-it-important-2/
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Alaskan Lands Act
Date: November 12th, 1980.
Description: It is known as the National Interest lands conservation act of 1980. It gave 79.5 million acres to government for refuges.
Source: https://www.fws.gov/las/lawsdigest/alaskcn.html
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Chernobyl
Date: 1986
Description: Chernobyl is a nuclear plant in Ukraine. It had a bady built reacter. It was not being checked for safety. It was bad for radiation.
Source: http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/chernobyl-accident.aspx
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Montreal Protocol
Date: 1987
Description: It was a treaty that was signed to start protecting the ozone layer.
Source: https://www.state.gov/e/oes/eqt/chemicalpollution/83007.htm
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Exxon Valdez
Date: 1989
Description: The Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker which spilled 11 million gallons of oil.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/03/the-exxon-valdez-oil-spill-25-years-ago-today/100703/
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Desert Protection Act
Date: 1994
Description: Clinton and congress signed the law that created the death valley and Joshua Tree NationalParks and the Mojave National Preserve.
Source:https://www.nps.gov/jotr/learn/management/caldesprotect.htm
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FIFRA
Date: 1996
Description: It is a US law, fungicide, Rodenticide act, ad federal insecticide. It regulates the distribution of pesticides for the environment.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act-fifra-and-federal-facilities
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World population hits 6 billion
Date: October 12, 1999
Description: October 12, 1999 the United Nations Population Fund estimated 6 billion.
Source: http://earthsky.org/human-world/this-date-in-science-6-billion-humans-and-counting
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Energy Policy Act
Date: 2005
Description: This act was enacted by Congress to try and reduce increasing energy problems in communties. It created jobs as well.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-energy-policy-act
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Kyoto Protocol
Date: 2005
Description: A treaty set limits on greenhouse gas emissions for industrialized nations. 28 nations in the Europeanunion have signed it.
Source: https://unfccc.int/process/the-kyoto-protocol
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