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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
This book was a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. -
Homestead Act
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Yellowstone National Park founded
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American Forestry Association founded
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John Muir
John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States -
Yosemite plus Sequoia 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
The Lacey Act of 1900 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. -
Golden Age of conservation ( Theodore Roosevelt) start
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First National Wild life Refuge established
National Wildlife Refuge is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. -
US Forest Service founded
The United States Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers harvesting and development of the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands. -
Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot was an American forester and politician. Pinchot also served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service. -
Aldo Leopold
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Audubon Society founded
The National Audubon Society is an American, non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation. -
Antiquities Act
This law gives the President of the United States the authority to, by executive order, restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government. -
Golden Age of conservation ( Theodore Roosevelt) end
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US National Park Service founded
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Civilian Conservation Corps founded
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Taylor Grazing Act
The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 is a United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
This act requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp. -
Fish plus Wildlife Service founded
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962. -
Wilderness Act
It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres (36,000 km²) of federal land. -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Among other things, the commission recommended that the nation protect wild rivers and scenic rivers from development that would substantially change their wild or scenic nature. -
Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire
The river is famous for being "the river that caught fire," helping to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960s. -
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions. -
First Earth Day
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Environmental Protection Agency established
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Clean Air Act established
The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
Endangered Species Act
It. was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation. -
FIFRA
The objective of FIFRA is to provide federal control of pesticide distribution, sale, and use. -
OPEC and Oil Embargo
OPEC is an international organization and economic cartel whose mission is to coordinate the policies of the oil-producing countries. -
Roland and Molina ozone
They suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as CFCs, might behave in a similar fashion as Crutzen had proposed for nitrous oxide. -
RCRA
RCRA is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste. -
Clean Water Act
CWA is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
SMCRA is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. -
Love canal, NY
Love Canal was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the LaSalle section of the city. -
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979 in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. -
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. -
CERCLA (Superfund)
This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. -
Montreal Protocol
Montreal Protocol is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. -
Exxon Valdez
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef. -
Energy Policy Act
It was passed by Congress and set goals, created mandates, and amended utility laws to increase clean energy use and improve overall energy efficiency in the United States. -
Desert Protection Act
established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert. -
World population hits 6 billion
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Kyoto Protocol
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IPCC Report on climate Change
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
