Ecology Timeline Project

George Perkins Marsh

Mar 15, 1801

Henry David Thoreau

Jul 12, 1817

John Muir

Apr 21, 1838

Theodore Roosevelt

Oct 27, 1858

Gifford Pinchot

Aug 11, 1865

Alice Hamilton

Feb 27, 1869

Yellowstone National Park Establishment

Mar 1, 1872

[Yellowstone](http://https://docs.google.com/document/d/1luGdrYzkKqA4JxSWH7b5XkUrx7XlLvjGm2T1BiLXcG0/edit)

Franklin Roosevelt

Jan 30, 1882

Aldo Leopold

Jan 11, 1887

Lacey Act

May 25, 1900

First National Wildlife Refuge

Mar 14, 1903

US Forest Service Founded

Feb 1, 1905

Antiquities Act

Jun 8, 1906

Rachel Carson

May 27, 1907

US National Park Service Founded

Aug 25, 1916

Jimmy Carter

Oct 1, 1924

Edward Abbey

Jan 29, 1927

Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

Mar 16, 1934

Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act

Sep 2, 1937

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

Jan 1, 1938

Al Gore

Mar 31, 1948

Cuyahoga River Burning

Nov 1, 1952

Burned again in June 1st of 1969

Clean Air Act

Dec 17, 1963

Wilderness Act

Sep 3, 1964

OPEC Oil Embargo

Dec 1, 1967

Lasted till the Embargo was lifted March 1, 1974

National Environmental Policy Act

Jan 1, 1970

First Earth Day

Apr 22, 1970

OSHA

Dec 29, 1970

The Clean Water Act

Jan 1, 1972

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

Mar 3, 1973

March 3, 1973 is the signed date, Effective July 1st, 1975

The Endangered Species Act

Dec 28, 1973

Love Canal

Feb 1, 1978

TMI Nuclear Incident

Mar 28, 1979

Superfund

Dec 11, 1980

Union Carbide Plant Disaster Bhopal, India

Dec 2, 1984

Lasted till December 3, 1984

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Explosion

Apr 25, 1986

The Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act

Oct 17, 1986

Montreal Protocol

Sep 16, 1987

Signed on September 16th, 1987, enforced on January 1st, 1989.

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Mar 24, 1989

The Oil Pollution Act

Aug 18, 1990

The Kyoto Protocol

Dec 11, 1997

BP Gulf Coast Oil Spill

Apr 20, 2010