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Agricultural Revolution
Also known as the Neolithic Revolution, was when people first started food production and did not just hunt and gather. -
Industrial Revoultion
The industrial revolution was a time period when people were switching from hand production to machines. -
John Muir
John Muir was an author, naturalist, and an early advocate of wilderness preservation. His acivism helped save any wilderness ares like Yosmite Valley, Sequoia National Park. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
"Walden" is a novel written to tell the details of a two year, two month, two day experience in a cabin near Walden Pond. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act granted people in the United States land for farming if the met the criteria to obtain the free land. -
Yellowstone National Park founded
Yellowstone was the first national park in the world. Congress passed the law to make it a national park in 1872 and it was signed by President Ulysses S. Grant. -
American Forestry Association founded
Non-profit conservation organization dedicated to protecting forests and promoting healthy eco-systems. -
Yosemite National Park founded
The Yosemite National Park spans 747,956 acres across the eastern United States. The park is known for its cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia grove, and biological diversity. -
Sierra Club Founing
The Sierra Club was one of the first environmental organizations in the world and is still around today. -
Lacy Act Founded
The Lacy Act was put into action to punish those who break the laws against wildlife preservation. -
First National Wild life Refuge established
The refuge is called Pelican Island National Wildlife refugee in Florida by Roosevelt. It was created to protect endargered birds. -
US Forest Service founded
administers the nation's national forests and grasslands. -
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and for advocating the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal. He called it "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man." -
Civilian Conservation Corps founded
It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor. Close to the heart of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the CCC combined his interests in conservation and universal service for youth. -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially environmental problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. -
First Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. -
Golden Age of Conservation
Between 1990-1 Theodore Roosevelt made laws to change the way people treat wildlife.
