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Yellowstone National Park
- World's first national park.
- The vast natural forest of Yellowstone National Park covers nearly 9,000 km2
- 96% of the park lies in Wyoming, 3% in Montana and 1% in Idaho.
- Caused us to have more national parks.
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First national wildlife refuge established at Pelican Island, Florida, to protect the brown pelican.
This was a law that helped protect the brown pelican in Pelican Island in Florida so they do not become extinct. -
U.S national parks system is created
- This is the law that started all national parks systems in the united states.
- Without this law, there would be no National Parks.
- The Historical National Parks in the U.S have brought us hope and memories in our country.
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U.S Fish and Wildlife Service
- Manages national wildlife refuges and protects endangered species.
- Conserve and protect endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants.
- Saves endangered species Saves endangered species
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Silent Spring is Published, alerting the public to the dangers of pesticides
Without this book being published, nobody would have knew what the pesticides were doing to our crops, flowers, and animals so they would keep using them and the crops would keep dying and some animals would become extinct. -
Severals species were on the brink of extinction.
Species such as bald eagles, peregrine falcons, grizzly bears,are on the brink of extinction because of pollution. the dates were not specified because it was all determined in the late 1600's through the early 1700's -
Oregon passes the first law for beverage bottle recycling
- In 1972, Oregon passed a law that anything such as plastic, rubber, and cans can be recycled.
- First passed law in the United States that anything can be recycled.
- Helped make the earth a cleaner environment by recycling.
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Leakage of buried toxic chemicals caused the abandonment of the Love Canal area near Niagara Falls, New York
When the leakage of all of the toxic chemicals happened, everybody stayed away from the Love Canal and just let all of the toxins to sit there and ruin the whole entire area. -
Nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, has near meltdown, causing temporary evacuation of a large area
This nuclear power plant was very danger if exposed to humans so if anything goes wrong, which something did, they need to evacuate the whole area. -
President announces that the United States will no longer support the Kyoto Protocol.
The kyoto protocol was s service around the world that would help each country, but to be in the kyoto protocol, you have to give them a lot of secret information and sometimes you never knew if it was safe or not.
