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Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus was the first economist to propose a theory of population. He wrote a book about this called, Essay on the Principle of Population -
Trees in the 1600's
Pine Tree Riot. The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in New Hampshire in 1772, placing it among the disputes between Crown and colonists that culminated in the American Revolution. -
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and most importantly a naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States -
Yellow Stone
Yellowstone National Park is a nearly 3,500-sq.-mile wilderness recreation area atop a volcanic hot spot. Most of it is in Wyoming but it stretches as far as Idaho. -
Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the Scottish-American preservationist John Muir -
Lacey Act
Act passed that said banned the illegal trafficking of animals. -
Forest Service
is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands -
Dust Bowl
A period of time in which terrible dust storms damaged the ecology and the economy -
Hunting in the 1600's
Only monarchs and servants could hunt in the royal forest -
Cuyahoga River Fire
A train caught on fire which then ignited oil that is floating on top of the Cuyahoga River. This ignited a environmental revolution -
National Environmental Policy Act
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality -
EPA
is an agency of the Federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment -
Three-mile Island
The Three Mile Island accident was a nuclear meltdown that occurred where the reactor number #2 in Pennsylvania. -
Exxon Valdez
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef -
Fukchima, Japan
America drops nuclear bomb on Fukchima. -
Earth Day
Demonstrate support for the protection of our environment -
Arbor day
Arbor day is a day when people are encouraged to plant and care for trees. It is the last Friday of April. -
Clean Water Act
Primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Its objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources -
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air act is the law that helps control air pollution