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Industrial Revolution
was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times. -
John Muir
Scotish-born american naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of the wilderness in the U.S. His activism helped preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia national park, and other wilderness areas. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Published in 1854, the work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self reliance. It s a book which contains Thoreau's experiences for two years while he lived in a cabin he built in Walden park. -
Homestead Act
One of 3 United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership at no cost of farmland called a "homestead". -
Yellowstone National Park founded
Established by the U.S Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in the U.S state of Wyoming. It is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features. -
American Forestry Association founded
Formed in Chicago, Illinois in September 1875 by John Aston Warder to be an organization that acts as a clearinghouse for environmental organizations working to preserve world tree growth. -
Yosmite plus Sequoia National Park founded
Yosemite National Park is known for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. 95% of the national park is wilderness and it was formed to honor Galen Clark and John Muir. -
General Revision Act
The General Revision Act of 1891 repealed the "Timber Culture and Preemption Acts", and authorized the president of the United States, under the forest reserve act, to create forest preserves. -
Sierra Club founded
The Sierra Club was founded by John Muir in 1892. It is the worlds oldest environmental organization. -
Lacey Act
Conservation law in the United States introduced into congress by Rep. John F. Lacey. The Lacey Act protects both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for a wide array of violations. -
Golden Age of Conservation
From the 1900's to the 1910's when Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir worked together to preserve hundreds of acres of land in the United States. -
First national wildfire refuge established
Designation for certain protected areas of the U.S. managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service -
U.S forest serivce founded
An agency of the United States department of Agriculture that administers the nations 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands. -
Gifford Pinchot
An American forester and politician. Pinchott served as the first chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until 1910. -
Aldo Leopold
Influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement. -
Audubon Society Founded
An American non-profit, environmental organization, dedicated to conservation. -
U.S forest service founded
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Antiquities Act
in 1906 the act was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906, giving the president of the U.S. authority to, by executive order to 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 withdrawals
Theodore Roosevelt was waving off land to protect it and preserve it -
U.S National Park Service founded
Is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. -
Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. -
Civilian Conservation Corps founded
A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 17–23. -
Soil Conservation Service founded
An agency of the USDA (United States Department of Agricultural) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers. -
Taylor Grazing Act
A United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) 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 Wildfire Service founded
is a federal government agency within the United States Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. -
Sient Spring published by Rachel Carson
is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962. -
Wilderness Act
Was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected some 9 million acres of federal land. -
Clear Air Act
is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
Clear Air act
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
An act that recommends for nation wild rivers and scenic rivers to be protected from development that would substaintially change there wild and scenic rivers. -
Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio caught fire
The Cuyahoga River is known as the river which caught fire and this helped to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960's. -
NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
A U.S environmental law that established a U.S national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment . -
First Earth Day
An annual day on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earths natural environment -
Clear Air Act
is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
Environmental Protection Agency established
created for the purpose to protect human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by congress. -
FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act)
A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
Endangered Species Act
Is one of the dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s. -
OPEC oil embargo
Started in October 1973, when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo. -
Roland and Molina(UCI) announce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
An announcement that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) being added to the atmosphere might decrease the ozone layer surrounding the earth by 10 percent within the next fifty to eighty years. -
FIFRA
A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
is the principal Federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste. -
Clear Water Act
Is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. -
Clean Water Act
is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. -
Suyrface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. -
FIFRA
A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
Love Canal, NY (toxic waste leaks into residential houses)
A neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the LaSalle section of the city. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Read Avenue. -
3 Mile Island Nuclear accident , Pennsylvania
was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979. -
Alaskan Land Act
was a United States federal law passed in 1980 by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 2 of that year. -
CERCLA (comprehensive environmental response ,compensation, liability act)
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Bhopal, India (chemical toxic cloud kills 2000)
was a gas leak incident in India, considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters. -
CERCLA
The objective of CERCLA is to clean up uncontrolled releases of specified hazardous substances. -
Chernobyl Meltdown, Ukraine
Was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. -
Montreal Protocol
An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion. -
FIFRA
A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
Exxon Valdez
An oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska. -
Clear Air Act
is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
CERCLA
The objective of CERCLA is to clean up uncontrolled releases of specified hazardous substances. -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
is a United States government act. It was passed by Congress and addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management , natural gas imports and exports alternative fuels and requiring certain fleets to acquire alternative fuel vehicles, which are capable of operating on nonpetroleum fuels , electric motor vehicles, radioactive waste, coal power and clean coal, renewable energy, and other issues. -
Desert Protection Act
Is a federal law, signed by President Bill Clinton, and passed by the United States Congress on October 8, 1994, that established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert. -
Clean Air Act
Is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
Kyoto Protocol
A protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. -
World population hits 6 billion
It means that the population of the world has doubled in less than four decades. Similarly, it means that a tenth of all the people who have ever lived are now alive. -
Al Gore(and IPCC) presented with noble peace prize for their work on climate change
Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. -
UN Cliate change conference , cancun, Mexico
Was held in Cancún, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010. -
Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and may be continuing to seep. -
World population hits 7 billion
It took only a dozen years for humanity to add another billion people to the planet, reaching the milestone of 7 billion. -
Agricultural Revolution
describes a period of agricultural development in Britain between the 15th century and the end of the 19th century, which saw an epoch-making increase in agricultural productivity and net output that broke the historical food scarcity cycles.
