APES- Laws and Acts Timeline

By madisonmsell

  • Forest Reserve Act of 1891

    This act allowed the president to set aside public land for forest reserves.

  • Lacey Act

    Prohibits the transport of illegally harvested game animals along state lines.

  • Antiquities Act

    Protects cultural and natural resources.

  • National Park Service Act

    Established the National Park Service.

  • Migratory Bird Act

    It protects birds from people.

  • Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

    This act requires all waterfowl hunters that are either 16 years old or older to have a federal hunting stamp.

  • Taylor Grazing Act

    Intended to stop injury to public grazing lands.

  • Soil Conservation Act of 1935

    This act established the Soil Conservation Service, which wanted to prevent damage to reservoirs, protect public health, and public land.

  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

    Regulates the sale, distribution, and use of pesticides.

  • international union for the conservation of nature

    its vision is a world that values and conserves nature, they have a red list (threatened species)

  • Water Pollution Control Act

    Limits and reduces the amount of pollution of interstate waters and sanitary conditions of underground waters.

  • Price-Anderson Act

    It is basically insurance money for any nuclear accident.

  • Clear Air Act

    Regulates emissions of hazardous air pollutants.

  • Wilderness Act

    Created the National Wilderness Preservation System.

  • Land and Water Conservation Act

    Provides funds and grants for land and water for all Americans

  • Resource Recovery Act

    Established a research program to try and find ways of dealing with solid waste.

  • Clean water Act

    Regulated pollution discharges into US waters.

  • Convention on International trade in endangered species CITES

    controls an international trade in Wild Fauna and Flora controls the international trade of threatened plants and animals.
    International agreement between 175 countries

  • Endangered Species Act of 1973

    Authorizes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine which species can be listed as threatened or endangered and prohibits the harming/trading of these species, also authorizes the government to purchase habitat that is critical to the species

  • Safe Drinking Water Act

    Protects all drinking water.

  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

    Protects communities and resource conservation.

  • Comprehensive Environment Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980

    Provides a "super fund" to help clean up hazardous waste sites and any other released pollutants in the environment

  • Convention on Biological diversity

    Established a treaty to protect biodiversity.

  • Marine Mammal Protection Act

    Prohibits the killing of all marine mammals in the U.S. and prohibits the import or export of any marine mammal body parts