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10,000 years ago Agricultural Revolution
agriculture revolution was when people farmed and took care of domestic animals. They used natural resources to survive. -
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Industrial Revolution
manufacturing was often done in people’s homes, using hand tools or basic machines. -
John Muir Birth
John Muir was an American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walden is an anemerican book written by noted transcendentalist.Wanted people to get the understanding of socioty. -
Homestead Act
A homestead act was one of three United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership at no cost of farmland -
Yellowstone national park founded
By the Act of March 1, 1872, Congress established Yellowstone National Park in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming "as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people" and placed it "under exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior." -
American Forestry Association founded
This association the following. Magazines, American Forests and Forest Life.. -
Yosemite plus Sequoia National Park founded
Yosemite was the first National Park founded & Sequoia was the second National Park founded.. -
General Revision Act
repealed the Timber Culture and Preemption Acts. -
sierra club founded
The first Sierra Club seal was created in 1892 -
lacey act
s a conservation law. -
golden age of conservation
was one of dramatic change in American society in general, agriculture in particular. -
First National wildlife refuge established
President Theodore Roosevelt created the first U.S. national wildlife refuge . -
U.S forest Service found
Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture -
Gifford Pinchat
First Chief of the Forest Service, -
Aldo Leopold
Attends Sheffield Scientific School at Yale -
Audubon Society founded
Audubon is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and uses science -
Antiquities Act
authority to, by executive order, restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government -
congress became upset because roosevelt was waving so much forest land so they banned further withdrawls
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U.S National Park service founded
President Taft sent a special message to Congress on February 2, 1912, in which he said: "I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks. Such legislation is essential to the proper management of those wondrous manifestations of nature, so startling and so beautiful that everyone recognizes the obligations of the Government to preserve them for the edification and recreation of the people." -
Dust Bowl
severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands.. -
soil conservation service founded
In 1933 the Soil Erosion Service (SES) was created as a temporary division of the Department of Interior for the prevention of soil erosion on public and private lands. -
Civilian Conservation Corps founded
the New Deal legislation to help relief high unemployment resulting from Great Depression. -
taylor grazing act
The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 (43 USC 315), signed by President Roosevelt, was intended to "stop injury to the public grazing lands [excluding Alaska] by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration; to provide for their orderly use, -
migratory bird hunting stampt act
The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act, or the "Duck Stamp Act," as this March 16, 1934, authority is commonly called, requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp -
fish plus wildlife service founded
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's mission is, working with others, to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people." -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring was published to warn the public of the dangers associated with pesticide use -
Wilderness Act
It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected some 9 million acres of federal land -
Wild & Scenic Rivers Act
"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations. " -
cuyahoga river in cleveland ohio caught fire
the river is most famous for being "the river that caught fire" -
National Environmental Policy Act
first laws ever written that establishes a broad national framework for protecting our environment. -
environmental protection agency established
they established the Clean Air Act. -
First Earth Day
Earth Day was held, one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy. -
OPEC Oil Embargo
The embargo both banned petroleum exports to the targeted nations and introduced cuts in oil production. -
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act provided for the conservation of ecosystems upon which threatened and endangered species of fish, wildlife, and plants depend. -
roland and molina (uci) announce that cfcs are depleting the ozone layer
(CFCs),chemicals, primarily chlorofluorocarbons travel to the upper atmosphere where they catalyze the breakdown of the protective ozone layer. Scientists have warned that even if action is taken ctickly, ozone depletion can be reduced, but not reversed for at least 100 years -
rcra resource conservation recovery act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave." This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. RCRA also set forth a framework for the management of non-hazardous solid wastes. The 1986 amendments to RCRA enabled EPA to address environmental problems that could result from underground tanks storing petroleum and other hazardous substances. -
Clean_Water_Act
the clean water act primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution -
surface mining control and reclamation act
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) was enacted in 1977 after the US Congress recognized the need to regulate mining activity, rehabilitate abandoned mines, and protect society and the environment from the adverse effects of mining operations -
love canal, Ny (toxic waste leaks into residental houses)
For over a century, American industry has been dumping its toxic chemical wastes at thousands
of sites across the nation. The total number of these dumps, their contents, and their condition
are all unknown; in many cases records have long since been lost. Some dumps contain chemicals that were considered safe years ago but are now known to cause cancer or other sicknesses; some were created perilously close to where people live. -
3 mile island nuclear accident pennsylvania
In 1979 at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the # 2 reactor. The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed.
Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents. -
alaska land act
In all, the act provided for the designation of over 100 million acres (400,000 km2) of public lands, fully a third of which was set aside as wilderness area. -
cercla
This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. -
Chernobyl Meltdown
Design flaws, compounded by human errors, cause Soviet engineers to lose control of a reaction at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. -
Montreal Protocal
An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion. -
Exxon Valdez
His Tanks Spilled more that 11 million gallons of crude oil.. -
Energy Policy Act
National Energy Conservation Policy Act and established several energy management goals. -
Desert Protection Act
The Act establishes the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert -
Kyoto Protocal
international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -
World Population hits 6 billion
on october 12 the popoulation hit 6 billion. -
Al Gore presented with the nobel peace priza for their work on Climate change
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Albert Arnold Gore . -
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
On April 20, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and commencing months of oil leaking unrestrained into the ocean. -
Climate Change Conference
The meeting produced the basis for the most comprehensive and far-reaching international response to climate change the world had ever seen to reduce carbon emissions and build a system which made all countries accountable to each other for those reductions. -
World population hits 7billion
the population hit the top rank of 7billion after years before it was 6.7 billion.
