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Jan 1, 1111
Agricultural Revolution
The Agricultural Revolution, which began over 10,000 years ago -
Industrial Revollution
The Industrial Revolution, which began 275 years ago. -
Thomas Mathus Prediction
Thomas Mathus predicted that exponential population growth would outpace linear food production, leading to starvation. -
John Muir is born
John Muir contributed heavily to the Preservation and Naturalist community, but he is mainly noted for his personal founding of the Sierra Club, a naturalist organization focused on preservation. -
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Walden is a written documentary of Henry David Thoreau's life in a cabin he built of of the Walden pond in Massachusetts. He lived in his cabin for 2 years, 2 months, and 2 days, finally leaving in September of 1847. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act stated that any man who has not gone against the American Government is allowed to claim 160 acres of government property, as long as they either farmed and lived on it for 5 years or payed the United States $1.25 per acre. -
Yellowstone National Park Founded
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American Forestry assocation founded
The American Forestry Association was founded in September of 1875. The AFA was able to keep up with conservation and management for a long period of time before National and State Forest areas were selected. The AFA was key throughout the turn of the century. -
Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks founded
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General Revision Act of 1891
The General Revision Act of 1891 was formed to grant any President the right to claim and land as preserved wildlife area. Benjamin Harrison, after he himself designated more land to be government protected, signed a bill saying no President would ever again be able to sanction wildlife monuments. -
Sierra Club Founded
One of the most known preservation groups to this day is formed. Originally founded by John Muir, the Sierra Club's main goal is to promote conservation of the forests and environments of America. There first act was to try and hault the proposed shrinkage of Yosemtie National Park. -
Lacey Act
Prohibits the trade or selling of fish, plants, or wildlife that is protected or endangered. It was ammended ini 2008 to include even more species and also trees. -
Golden Age of Conservation (1901-09)
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First national wildlife refuge establish
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Audubon Society founded
The audubon Society is one of the oldest conservationist groups in the country. It's focus is on Healthy Ecosystems but it has always been heavily centered around birds due to its founded, John James Audubon. -
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold took on many roles during his life. He was an avid hunter, conservationist, and wildlife manager. He attended Yale"s Scientific School in 1905 and brought about the idea of ethics toward the environment. -
U.S. forest Service founded
The United States Forest Service, establish February 1st, 1905, oversees 193 million acres of government forest land. 42% of their 5.5 billion dollar budget is spent fighting fires. -
Gifford Pinchot
A Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was the Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 to 1910 -
Antiquities Act
Enacted by Theodore Roosevelt, The Antiquities Act gives the governent the power to detain public land deny use. It has been used many times since it was created. -
Congress bans further withdrawls of land
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U.S. National Park service founded
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Dust Bowl
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Civilian Conservation Corps founded
This group was founded as a part of FDR's New Deal Plan. The CCC gave jobs to unemployed men and main goal was to provide consevation efforts to the country's many national parks and other land. -
Soil Conservation Service founded
The SCS's specialty is providing soil testing facilities, consulting with companies about soil use and conservation, as well as preventing erosion. -
Taylor Grazing Act
Act that regulates the amount of grazing on public land to ensure that overgrazing does not happen. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
The "Duck Stamp" Act was created after millions of acres of waterfowl nesting grounds were drained for faming. The goal is to raise money for the conservation of these waterfowl. Anyone hunting waterfowl over the age of 16 must buy a Duck Stamp. -
Fish & Wildlife Service founded
Probably one of the most famous Environmental Service in the Department of the Interior, the Fish and Wildlife Service was founded to conserve, protect, and enforce the laws laid down regaardng the use and conservation of fish, wildlife, and the environment. -
Jane Goodall
The most famous Chimp Woman in the World. She studied for several years in Africa's harsh environment to study chimps and their behavior. She completed her thesis on the subject in 1965. -
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The book that started the modern Environmental Movemen. The goal of Carson's book was to exploit the ill-effects of DDT use on Bald Eagles and other animals. -
Wilderness Act
Credited to be one of the best acts ever created to date, the Widlerness Act of 1964 placed million of acres of land as protected wilderness area, promising the conservation of some of the most beautiful landscapes America has to offer for the future generaitons. -
Garret Hardin introduce the Tragedy of the Commons
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act designates any rvier underneath the act to be kept in pristine, conserved, and freeflowing state. -
Cuyahoga River cathces fire
1969 was just the latest fire that has occured on Cuyahoga River. At one point the most polluted river in the nation, the Cuyahoga river is a major shipping route for ships traveling through the Great Lakes. Due to the amazingly high amount of oil in the river, the river caught fire for the 13th time in 1969. The worst fire that ever occured on the river was in 1952. The fire sparked and uproad in environmental reform. -
National Environmental Policy Act
The NEPA act is a new requirement for all agencies. All agencies are required to create a report that forces them to consider any type of Environmental Impact in their decision making process. This allows NEPA to regulate environmental impact by the government. -
Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
By some scholar's opinion, Richard Nixon was the greatest environmentalist since Roosevelt and has not been matched since. However, there is much debate as to whehter Nixon implented environmental politicies to pacify the liberals, or because he was seriously interested in environmental protection. Either way, during his term in office he did create the Environmental Protection Agency, -
First Earth Day
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EPA Created
The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 under the administration of Richard Nixon. The EPA's main goal is to enforce and create new legislation centered around protecting the human realm and the environment. The EPA is one of the most famous Environmental Agencies to date. -
FIFRA
The FIFRA was put in place to regulate the use of pesitcides and other chemical treatments. It requires that all chemical treatments must be properly labeled and approved by the EPA. -
Endangered Species Act
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OPEC oil embargo
When the United States decided to support Israel by restocking them with weapons after Egypt, Syria, and several other nations attacked Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, the asembly of Arab Oil power holders declared an oil embargo. The embargo lasted until March of the following year. -
Sherwood Roland and Molina Announce that CFCs are depleting the ozone layer
Chlorofluorocarbons are compounds made by man that are harmless until they go up into Earth's atmosphere, break apart, and release chlorine which degrades the earth's ozone layer. -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Regulates the processes involved in the disposal of the nation's increasing trash surplus. -
Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act set regulations regarding the pollution currently in America's waterways. It also regulates any further pollution to waterways, and making sure that water bodies meet standards high enough for recreation. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
The Surface Mining control and Reclamation Act regulates coal current coal mining and the process of reusing old mines. Its main concern is about surface mining and its effects on the environment. -
Love Canal, NY & Lois Gibbs
Hooker Chemical used a patch of land for dumpnig toxic waste. After covering up the waste they sold the land to a housing development company and it became the neighborhood of Love Canal. The waste was discoverd and Lois Gibbs, a worried homeowner, along with many others protested the waste and a whoel slew of controversy and newspaper reports soon follow. Lois Gibbs became an advocate for raising awareness about the issue and created the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice. -
3 Mile Ilsand Nuclear Accident
Due to Human-Computer Interaction discrepancies and a lack of training, the 3 Mile Island reactor was not properly attended to and the result was a leak of coolant and a partial meltdown of the reactor. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission allowed 40,000 gallons of radioactive waste to be dumped into the Susquehanna River following the incident. -
Alaskan Lands Act
An act that gave millions more acres to the National Park system, more wild and scenic rivers, and more monuments to be added to the state of Alaska. -
CERCLA Superfund
The CERCLA Superfund is a tax put on the oil and petroleum industries to go into a trust fund account that is reserved for cleaning up any type of spill or environmental disaster. -
Ronald Regan begins term
Regan was opposed to almost every single environmentaly law. He laid off many workers of the EPA, disregarded acid rain regulation imporvements, and overall shutting down or slowing many environmental regulations put in by previous presidents. -
Bhopal, India Toxic Cloud
The Bhopal, India toxic gas leak is considered one of the worst in history. Over 500,000 people were affected with over 2,000 immediately dying and over 10,000 more dying shortly after. -
Chernobyl
A power surge led to a rupture in Reactor Number 4's vessel, causing a huge amount of radioactive fallout to shoot out into the sky at the Chernobyl power plant in the USSR. This event landed at the top of the list of Nuclear Accidents, being number 7 out of 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The accident affected over 300,000 people. -
Montreal Protocol
A worldwide protocl designed to limit or complete stop the production of any chemcial or substance that can damage or deplete the ozone layer. -
World Population reacheds 5 billion
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Exxon Valdez
On the night of March 24th, 1989, on the Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez struck a reef that caused the biggest environmental disaster to date. It spilled anywhere from 11 to 32 millions gallons of oil into Prince William Sound. Due to the regions inaccessibility cleanup was a very expensive and rigorous task. -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
The Energy Policty Act of 1992 was an ammendement to the NECPA of 1978 that imposed more regulations on things like Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation -
Desert Protection Act
Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on the 8th of October in 1994, it created 3 imprtant national parks in the California Desert. -
Julia Butteryfly protests deforestation in tree
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Kyoto Protcol
The Kyoto Protocl is a nationwide conference that was held to creatre a strict code for naitons invovled to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases. -
World Population Hits 6 billion
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World Population Reaches 7 Billion
