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Trees in the 1600's
Trees in America were once plentiful, but with the arrival of European settlers in the 1600s, forest were cleared in wide swaths for development. As the landing spot for settlers, the East Coast was the hardest hit by loggers, but New England is now seeing the greatest amount of forest growth, with the average numbers of trees per acre almost doubling since the 1950s. -
Hunting in the 1600s
The world during the 1600s were not careful on how much they hunted in nature.In the united states the fur trade was a very strong due to the over hunting of beavers and other small animals across Europe.The trend of over hunting was common across most of the world as there were no regulations on how much hunting was to much. -
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. In his book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. -
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817 and die on May 6, 1862 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States.Henry David Thoreau was a leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law. -
Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first National Park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of its most popular features. -
Arbor Day
National Arbor Day is celebrated every year on the last Friday in April; in Nebraska, it is a civic holiday. Each state celebrates its own state holiday. The customary observance is to plant a tree. On the first Arbor Day, April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were planted. -
Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States. The Clubs mission is to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.The club was one of the first large-scale environmental preservation organizations in the world, and currently engages in lobbying politicians to promote green policies. -
Lacey Act
Lacey Act is a conservation law in the United States that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported, or sold.The act was introduced into Congress by Rep. John F. Lacey, an Iowa Republican, the Act was signed into law by President William McKinley on May 25, 1900. It protects both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for those who violate the rules and regulations. -
Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres. The Transfer Act of 1905 transferred the management of forest reserves from the General Land Office of the Interior Department to the Bureau of Forestry. Started on February 1st in 1905 in the United States. It keeps America's forests protected. -
Theodore Roosevelt
The conservation legacy of Theodore Roosevelt is found in the 230 million acres of public lands he helped establish during his presidency. Much of that land - 150 millions acres - was set aside as national forests. Roosevelt created the present-day US Forest Service in 1905, an organization within the Department of Agriculture. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the Great Plains are devastated by drought in the 1930s. The Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination. When drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor, so the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled it into dense dust clouds, called “black blizzards.” -
Silent Spring
Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. The book was published on September 27th 1962 and it documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims unquestioningly. -
Cuyahoga River Fire
An oil slick on the Cuyahoga River - polluted from decades of industrial waste - caught fire on a Sunday morning in June 1969 near the Republic Steel mill, causing about $100,000 worth of damage to two railroad bridges. -
National Environmental Policy Act
National Environmental Policy Act is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality.Its most significant outcome was the requirement that all executive federal agencies prepare environmental assessments and environmental impact statements . These reports state the potential environmental effects of proposed federal agency actions. -
Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and celebrated in more than 193 countries each year. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin was disturbed that an issue as important as our environment was not addressed in politics or by the media, so he created the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970. -
Clean Air Act
a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws, and one of the most comprehensive air quality laws in the world. -
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the Federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. The EPA was proposed by President Richard Nixon and began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. -
Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. This act was established to prevent bodies of water such as streams, lakes, rivers, and others from becoming nasty due to pollutants. -
Three Mile Island
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. The incident was rated a five on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale: Accident With Wider Consequences. -
Exxon Valdez
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday, March 24, 1989. The oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef. The oil, originally extracted at the Prudhoe Bay oil field, eventually covered 1,300 miles of coastline, and 11,000 square miles of ocean. -
Fukushima, Japan
The destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011, caused by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, resulted in massive radioactive contamination of the Japanese mainland.
