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1700 BCE
Agricultural Revolution
a transition from a living more advanced and more productive form of agriculture, resulting in further social changes. -
Industrial Revolution
275 years ago, transition to new manufacturing processes. -
John Muir
He was important because he was an early advocate for the preservation of wildlife. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
This was a refection on simple living in natural surroundings. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In return the homesteaders paid a small filing fee and had to be a resident for 5 years before acquiring full ownership of the land. -
Yellowstone National Park founded
Yellowstone National Park is a national park mainly in Wyoming it also extends into Montana and Idaho. It was established by Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. -
American Forestry Association Founded
American Forests is a 501 non-profit conservation organization, dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy forest ecosystems. -
Yosemite plus Sequoia National Park founded
Muir and Johnson lobbied Congress for the Act that created Yosemite National Park. The sequoia hold the General Sherman tree the largest tree in the world -
Sierra Club founded
It is a Environmental organization in the united States. John Muir was its first president. -
Lacey Act
The Lacey Act is the banning of trafficking wildlife, especially logging wood. -
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Golden Age of Conservation
(Theodore Roosevelt) Roosevelt protected wildlife in the US. He moved the Forest Reserves from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. He also extended the reserves. -
First National Wildlife Refuge established
In the United States, it was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting. -
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service. -
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold is acknowledged by some as the father of wildlife conservation in this country. He was one of the early leaders of the American wilderness movement. He Attends Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1905. -
Audubon Society founded
Conservation of birds, other wildlife and healthy ecosystems. The National Audubon Society is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation. -
U.S. Forest Service founded
The USDA Forest Service was established within the Department of Agriculture. The agency was given a unique mission: to sustain healthy, diverse, and productive forests and grasslands for present and future generations. -
Antiquities Act
The Antiquities Act is the first law to establish that archeological sites on public lands are important public resources. -
Congress became Upset
Roosevelt was waving so much forest land so they banned further withdrawals -
U.S. National Park Service founded
President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service, a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks and monuments then managed by the department and those yet to be established. -
Dust Bowl
1930's, period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies, the severe drought and a failure to apply dry land farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused it. -
Soil Conservation Service Founded
Soil Conservation Service (SCS), is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers. -
Civilian Conservation Corps founded
It was a public work relief program in the US for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. IT planted 3 billion trees to help reforest America, constructed trails, lodges, and related facilities in more than 800 parks nationwide and upgraded most state parks, updated forest fire fighting methods, and built a network of service buildings and public roadways in remote areas. -
Taylor Grazing Act
A United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp. -
Fish plus Wildlife Service founded
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is an agency of federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior which is dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. -
Silent Spring
Silent Spring is a 1962 environmental science book by Rachel Carson. The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment, particularly on birds, of the indiscriminate use of pesticides -
Wilderness Act
Created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “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 river or river section may be designated by the U.S. Congress or the Secretary of the Interior. -
Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire
Oil and debris that had collected on the surface of the Cuyahoga River as wound its way through Cleveland caught fire. The story attracted national attention, and was featured in a report on the nation's environmental problems in the August 1 Time magazine. -
NEPA
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality. -
Clean Air Act Established
The Clean Air Act, originally passed in 1970 and amended in 1990, is a United States federal law designed to protect human health and the environment from the effects of air pollution. -
First Earth Day
Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in -
Environmental Protection Agency established
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Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. -
FIFRA Act
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
OPEC and Oil Embargo
Arab oil producers declared an embargo that drastically limited the shipment of oil to the United States. These producers, members of a cartel known as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), enforced the embargo in response to the Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel. -
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was signed on December 28, 1973, and provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
Roland and Molina (UCI)- CFC's and ozone announcement
They received the Noble Peace Prize. They warned that CFC's had the potential to deplete the ozone layer and soon after, many scientists issued their own warning. Eventually led to the ban of CFC's in aerosols. -
RCRA
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is our nation's primary law governing the disposal of solid and hazardous waste. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands. -
Love Canal, NY (toxic waste leaks into residential houses)
Chemicals spilled in an old canal and school and homes built over it causing birth defects. -
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. -
CERCLA Act
CERCLA stands for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, known also as Superfund. It was passed in 1980 in response to some alarming and decidely unacceptable hazardous waste practices and management going on in the 1970s. -
Alaskan Lands Act
Provides varying degrees of special protection to over 157,000,000 acres of land, including national parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments, wild and scenic rivers, recreational areas, national forests, and conservation areas. -
Bhopal, India (chemical toxic cloud)
Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. The toxic substance made its way into and around the shanty towns located near the plant. -
Chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident or simply Chernobyl, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union . An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. -
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. -
Exxon Valdez
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef at 12:04 am local time and spilled 11 to 38 million US gallons. -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
It was passed by Congress and set goals, created mandates, and amended utility laws to increase clean energy use and improve overall energy efficiency in the United States. -
Desert Protection Act
Established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert. -
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol treaty was negotiated in December 1997 at the city of Kyoto, Japan and came into force February 16th, 2005. The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) man-made CO2 emissions have caused it. -
World Population hits 6 billion
The United Nations Population Fund designated 12 October 1999 as the day which the world population reached six billion. It was officially called The Day of Six Billion. -
IPCC Report on Climate Change
2007-2008. Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for adaptation and mitigation. The report is the largest and most detailed summary of the climate change situation ever undertaken. -
Gulf Oil Spill
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) was in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. -
Nuclear Disaster in Japan
Following a major earthquake, a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident. All three cores largely melted in the first three days -
World Population hits 7 billion
The worlds population reached 7 Billion on October 31, 2012. The US Census Bureau made a lower estimate, for which the 7 billion mark was only reached on March 12, 2012.
