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Jan 1, 1000
Agricultural Revolution
10,000 years ago -
Industrial Revolution
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Thomas Malthus
predicted that exponential population growth would outspace linear food production, leading to starvation -
John Muir
He helped preserve the Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks and he founded the Sierra club. -
Walden By Henry David Thoreau
The book is about the things that happened to him in a cabin near Walden Pond in the woods over a period of 2 years 2 months and 2 days. He wanted a more understanding of society while being in nature -
Homestead Act
It said if you had never threatened the government and were over 21 and were the head of the household you could claim a federal land grant. -
Yellowstone National Park founded
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American Forestry Association founded
It was formed in Chicago, Illinois by John Aston Warder. The association want to help balance the trees being cut down. -
Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks founded
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General Revision Act
It gets rid of the Timber Culture and Preemption acts. It allows the presidents to create forest preservations under the Forest Reserve act -
Sierra Club founded
They want to help protect the wild life and educate people on how to protect and restore the environment. -
Lacey Act
It prevents animals, and plants from being taken illegally sold or transported. -
Agricultural Revolution
10,000 years ago -
Golden Age of Conservation
1901-1009 -
First natinal wildliferefuge established
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Gifford Pinchot
He was the first cheif of the United States Forest Service and he served from 1905 to 1910. He helped to create a plan for the private interest could develop the forest on a set of terms. -
Audubon Society founded
The founders of the Audubon Society are John Muir, Thomas Gilbert Pearson, and George Bird Grinnel. The Audubon Society help to protect wild birds and their eggs from being killed. -
U.S. Forest Service founded
The U.S. forest Service was founded by Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt. The U.S. forest service is apart of the US Departmant of Agriculture and it administrates the national forests and grasslands. -
Aldo Leopold
He began college at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale and graduation in 1908. He influenced the movement for wilderness conservation and environmental ethnics. -
Antiquities Act
It gives the Presdient autority to prevent people from using a particular part of land. -
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
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Dust Bowl
Started in 1930's -
Civilian Conservation Corps founded
This was created for unemployed civilians during the Great Depression as a work relief program -
Soil Conservation Service founded
The Soil Conservation Service helps to provides assistance to farmers, and landowners. -
Taylor Grazing Act
It regulates grazing on public land to improve rangeland conditions -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
The US federal government made hunters get a stamp in order to hunt duck and geese -
Fish plus Wildlife Service founded
The misson of the agency is to help conserve and protect the habitats of wildlife and plants for human benefit -
Jane Goodall
She was the first Leakey's Angels to go to the Gombe Stream National Park. -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
This book helped launch the contemporary environmental movement. -
Clean Air Act
Regulates the amount of pollution in the air -
Wilderness Act
This act protected 9.1 million acres of land and help to create the definition of wilderness -
Garret Hardin introduced the Tragedy of the Commons
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
This act protects wild and scenic rivers to be constructed on, to prevent from changing the wildlife's habitats -
Richard Nixon
1969-1974
He was for environmental protection -
Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire
It is one of the most polluted rivers and it has caught fire 13 times -
National Environmental Policy Act
It established the concil of envrionmental quality. -
First Earth Day
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Environmental Protection Agency established
The EPA enforces regulations that the government makes. -
FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act
Sets up reguations on incecticides, fungicides, and rodenticides to protect the users -
Endangered Species Act
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OPEC oil embargo
When the Arab and Israeli were having problems and the price of oil was going to go up -
Sherwood Roland and Molina Announce that CFC's are developleting the ozone layer
Roland and Molina believe that CFC's are so inert that nothing can destroy or capture them. -
RCRA (Resource Conservationm and Recovery Act)
The RCRA is a main federal law that regulates the disposal of solid and hazardous wates. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
It controls the effects of coal mining on the environment -
Clean Water Act
Regulates the amount of pollution released in the water. -
Love Canal, NY & Lois Gibbs (toxic waste leaks into residential houses
A city was built on top of a toxic watse site near the Love Canal and the waste got into the water and infected some people. -
3 Mile Island Nuclear accident
The nuclear reactors had a melt down and release radioactive gases and iodine into the environment -
CERCLA
The CERCLA is a law that cleans up sites with hazardous things. -
Alaskan Lands Act
It provide for national parkland and wildlife refuge system in Alaska -
Ronald Reagan
1981-1989
He was against the environment -
Bhopal, Indian
A posionous gas got released at the local pesticides plant and the gas was spread throughout the town and killed about 3000 people. -
Chernobyl
It is a terrible nuclear accident and the radiation spread throughout western USSR and europe -
World population reaches 5 billion
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Montreal Protocol
This is a treaty to help protect the ozone layer from depleating. -
Exxon Valdez
A ship carrying oil hit the Bligh Reef and it resulted in a oil spill -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
It was an act that addressed energy consumption and what to do to reduce it. -
Desert Protection Act
It established some national parks and reserves in the california desert like Death Valley, Mojave National Preserve, and Joshua Tree National Parks -
Kyoto Protocol
1997-2005
President George W. Bush prevented the US from attending the Kyoto Protocol -
Julia Buterfly Hill sat in tree "Luna" for 700+ days to protest deforestation
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World population reaches 6 million
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World population reaches 7 billion
