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Thoreau
Wrote- Life in the Woods
American Author and Poet
Naturalist
Philospher
Abolitionist -
John Muir
Died- December 24, 1914
Created the Sierra Club- protected the Sierra Nevada national park
Published a book named Our National Parks, that got attention from Teddy Roosevelt -
Gifford Pinchot
Chief of the Division of Forestry
Former chief and head of the new Forest Service
Founder of the Society of American Foresters
Referred to as the "Father of American Conservation" -
Frankiln D. Roosevelt
Died- April 12, 1945
Created- The Soil Conservation Service, The Civil Conservation Corps.(The New Deal), The Tennessee Valley Authority -
Aldo Leopold
Founded The Wilderness Society, the conservation and environmentalist movements, and the profession of game management
Former mayor of Wisconsin
Wrote The Sand Almanac
Died while helping his neighbor with a bush fire -
Rachel Carson
Environmentalist, Author, and Marine Biologist
Wrote Silent Spring
Wanted to ban the use of DDT -
Gaylord Nelson
Created Earth Day
Former Governor of Wisconsin
Created "Nelson Pill Hearings"
Was the Counselor for the Wilderness Society
Recieved the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Wrote Betond Earth Day -
Love Canal
A deserted project that was supposed to connect the two levels of Niagara Falls. Became a chemical dumpsite and landfill. Exploded in 1978, causing contamination to everything. -
George W. Bush
Former President of the United States
Strong believer in oil drilling
Helped to increase pollution and global warming -
Lois Gibbs
American Environmental Activist
Worked to get the Love Canal cleaned up
Created the Love Canal Homeowners association -
London Smog
Smoke from chimneys bagan to affect the air in London. Caused London to go into a smog and killed 3,000 people per week. Killed over 12,000. -
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
Dead zones are caused by excessive nutrient pollution from human activities. These cause oxygen to decrease in the ocean, causing marine life to struggle. -
Three Mile Island
A reactor melted causing radiation to go into the river. Got attention from President Carter. Workers had high levels of radiation. -
Chernobyl
An explosion in a reactor caused the powerplant to explode, which only killed 2 people at the time, but released radiation into the air which later killed 30 people. -
Exxon Valdez oil spill
An oil tank spilled into the Prince William Sound causing a big amount of wildlife to die and causing bad effects on the clean up crews of the oil spill. -
Shrinking Aral Sea
There was loss of water in the Aral Sea due to an unnatural disaster. -
Tennessee Coal Ash
300 million gallons of coal ash spilled in central Tennessee. The wall holding back the coal ash broke causing it to spill out onto many houses and some rivers. -
BP deepwater oil spill
Natural gas leaked into a riser causing it to explode and killing 11 people. This released gallons and gallons of oil into the gulf of Mexico making the waters nearly unlivable for any sea creatures.
