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Agricultural Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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John Moore
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
a book about wilderness, described the importance of nature -
Homestead Act
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Yellowstone National Park Founded
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American Foresrty Association was founded
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Yosemite Plus Sequioa National Park Founded
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Sierra Club Founded
The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States -
Lacey Act founded
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. -
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Golden Age of Conservation (Theodore Roosevelt)
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FIrst National Wildlife Refuge Established
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GIfford Pinchot
Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service -
Aldo Leopold
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Audobon Society Funded
protection of gulls, terns, egrets, herons, and other waterbirds high on its conservation priority list. -
Antiquites Act
resulted from concerns about protecting mostly prehistoric Indian ruins and artifacts -
US National Park Service Founded
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CIvilian Conservattion Corps Founded
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Taylor Grazing Act
was the first federal effort to regulate grazing on federal public lands. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp. -
Fish Pluse Wildlife Service Founded
It protects both plants and wildlife by making penalties for those who violate -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson -
Wilderness Act
was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States -
Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire
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First Earth Day
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Clean Air Act Established
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Endangered Species Act
When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973, it recognized that our rich natural heritage is of “esthetic, ecological, educational, recreational, and scientific value to our Nation and its people.” It further expressed concern that many of our nation’s native plants and animals were in danger of becoming extinct. -
FIFRA
The objective of FIFRA is to provide federal control of pesticide distribution, sale, and use. -
OPEC and Oil Embargo
The 1973 oil crisis started in October 1973 when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo. By the end of the embargo in March 1974,[1] the price of oil had risen from $3 per barrel to nearly $12. -
Rolan and Molina announce that CFC are depleting the ozone layer
Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth's stratosphere (the ozone layer), and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
Clean water Act
The comprehensive national law that regulates air emmisions from stationary and mobile sources -
Love Canal NY
site had formerly been used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical Company -
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history -
Bhopal, Island
The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster. -
chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. -
Superfund
is the federal government's program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. -
Exxon Valdez
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24 -
Energy Policy Act
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 established regulations requiring certain federal, state, and alternative fuel provider fleets to build an inventory of alternative fuel -
desert protection act
a federal law, signed by President Bill Clinton, and passed by the United States Congress on October 8, 1994, that established the Death Valley -
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Kyoto Protocol
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World populationn hits 6 billion
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IPCC Report on climate Change
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
remains the strongest tool to protect river ecosystems in the country. Some of the nation's premier rivers are protected -
Montreal Protocol
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Deepwater HOrizon Oil Spill