Environmental Timeline

Agricultural Revolution

Jan 1, 1001

8000 BC

Industrial Revolution

Jan 1, 1739

John Muir was born

Apr 21, 1838

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/john-muirs-yosemite-10737/ Naturalist John Muir , born on April 21st of 1838, spent the duration of his life as a dedicated protector of American wild land.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau was published

Aug 9, 1854

Walden- Life in The Woods Walden is a book written by David Thoreau to express the joys and simplicity of living life peacfully amid the natural surroundings of his small cabin in the wild.

Homestead Act

May 20, 1862

Yellowstone National Park founded

Mar 1, 1872

American forestry Association founded

Jan 19, 1875

Yosemite plus Sequoia National Park founded

Oct 1, 1890

Sierra Club founded

May 28, 1892

Power Point for the Siera Club The Sierra club was founded for the puropse of protecting the Earth's wild places while encouraging the responsible use of the Earth's natural and reusable resources.

Lacey Act founded

May 25, 1900

powerpoint for the Lacey Act The Lacey Act made it illegal to mport, export, sell, acquire, or purchase any fish, wildlife, or plant in violation of state, Federal, or forighn law.

Agricultural Revolution

Jan 1, 1901

Golden Age of Conservation

Period: Sep 14, 1901 to Mar 4, 1909

(Theodore Roosevelt was heavily involved)

First National Wildlife Refuge established

Mar 14, 1903

First National Wildlife Reserve In 1903, the very first National Wildlife Refuge center was established for the purposr of conserving every aspect of a piece of land enviromentaly.

Aldo Leopold was born

Jan 11, 1905

Gifford Pinchot

May 5, 1905

U.S. Forest Service founded

Jul 1, 1905

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg79s3SWdHI&list=PL83F7808B410A5BC4' >USFS official youtube playlist vedio 1</a> The U.S. Forest Service was founded during Theadore Roosevelt's presidency at the peak of the progressive movement. It has sucessfully retained and maintained millions of acers of Federal forest land for the future generations.

Audubon Society founded

Jul 15, 1905

Audubon Society plans nature center The Audubon Society, founded in 1905, has become one of today's largest private organizations for the conservation of wildlife in our country. They not only seek to protect nature, but to help people understand the importance of our natural resources such as soil, water, plants, and wildlife.

Antiquities Act

Jun 8, 1906

Top 9 National Monuments of the West The Antiquities Act, established in 1906, gave the president the authority to claim Unique American wildlands as National monuments to provide Government enforced protection for them.

U.S. National Park Service founded

Feb 3, 1912

Civilian Conservative Corps founded

Mar 4, 1933

Taylor Grazing Act

Jun 28, 1934

Powerpoint on the Taylor Grazing Act The Taylor Grazing Act was passed in order to regulate the use of public land for the grazing of animals.

Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

Jul 1, 1934

http://www.freenewspos.com/english/video/FL%20TM/Q3Npdme69ek' >Duck Stamp Act in action</a> The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act is what authorizes the distributation of annual duck stamps. The stamps allow the buyer to hunt while the procedes go to wildlife preservation.

Fish Plus Wildlife Service founded

Jul 1, 1940

Fish Plus Wildlife Service in action The Fish Plus Wildlife Service was founded for the intended purpose of regulating wildlife laws, protecting endangered species, and to manage migratory birds and fish, among other things.

Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson

Sep 27, 1962

today's view on the novel Silent Spring Rachel Carson's novel Silent Spring is deemed as an important landmark on the road of the enviromental movement. It also provided a stage for the public discusson of the hazards of a pestaside called DDT.

Wilderness Act established

Jun 9, 1963

vedio on sight for Wilderness act 1963 Today's system for the natural preservation of wilderness areas was established by the Wilderness Act in 1963.

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Oct 2, 1968

Group seeks protection under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act was desighned to protect rivers with a substancial amount of certain natural, cultural, and recreational values.

Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire

Jun 22, 1969

Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire An oil slick caused the 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River causing extensive damage and attracting publicity from all over America. But oddly, was not the first time the river had caught fire.

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Sep 23, 1969

Discussion vedio on NEPA The National Environmental Policy Act forces buisness and large industires to agnowlege the effects of their future actions would have on the enviroment during the planning process of said actions as well as brianstorm reasonable alternatives which would be healthier for the enviroment than their origional idea.

First Earth Day

Apr 22, 1970

Clean Air Act established

Dec 1, 1970

Clean Air Act of 1970 This act allowed both the State and Federal regulation of any and all air polution.
(Revised 63,65,70,77,90)

Enviromental Protection Agency established

Dec 2, 1970

Endangered Species Act

Mar 3, 1973

40 year anniversary of the Endangered Species Act The Endangered Species Act enforced the conservation of species who are currently or are at risk of being endangered throughout the majority of the land they live on or migrate around.

FIFRA- Federal, Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act

Dec 28, 1973

FIFRA The purpose of the FIFRA is to control the sale, distribution, nd use of pestacides in order to reduce the negative effect they have on the enviroment.
(revised 72,75,78,88)

OPEC and Oil Embargo

Dec 30, 1973

OPEC Arab oil embargo The OPEC enacted the Oil Embargo of 1973 which was desighned to cut the exports of oil to the US as well as any other countries that sent military aid to Isrial by 5% each month until Isrial evacuated the land they had gained from the Arab-Isrial war.

Roland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer

Jan 1, 1974

Just Rowland in this vedio, but Molina is involved too In 1974, Roland and Molina were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that CFC's, released by hairspray as well as other products, are refered to as "ozone depleting substances". This discovery led to the banning of CFC's from all aresol products.

RCRA (Resource Conservation & Recovery Act)

Oct 21, 1976

the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in reguards to OSHA The Resource Conservation & Recovery Act is responsible for dictating the disposal of solid and hazerdous waste.

Clean Water Act

Jan 1, 1977

Clean Water Act of 1977 The Clean Water Act of 1977 is an amendment of the Water Polution Control Act of 1972. It is ment to keep our Nation's waters clean.

Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act

Dec 31, 1977

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act The Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act is a Federal law that regulates the enviromental effects of both active and abandoned coal mines.

Love Canal, NY

Nov 6, 1978

The Love Canal Disaster The Love Canal was intended to be a "dream community" by harnesing the power of Niagrah Falls to run the city through the construction of a canal along the Eastern edge of the great waterfall. All did not go as planned, and later became a chemical landfill surrounded by anything but a dream community.

Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident

Mar 28, 1979

Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident was a result of a radioactive meltdown of a reactor due to worker error, and although no one was hurt, the US increased regulatory watch and improved reactor safety.

Bhopal, Island

Dec 2, 1984

December 2, 1984 Bhopal Island disaster On December 2nd, a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leaked methyl and other chemicals which killed more than 8,000 people within the first few days alone.

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Apr 26, 1986

1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster A reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine experianced a power surge which reasulted in the releas of large amounts of radioactive material into the enviroment. The effects of that disaster are still being delt with to this day.

CERCLA (Superfund)

Dec 11, 1986

Superfund clean up sight CERCLA placed a tax on the chemical and petrolium industries to reduce the use of said substances for the health of our enviroment.

Montreal Protocol

Sep 16, 1987

Montreal Protocol The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty desighned to limit substances that deplete the ozone layer.

Exxon Valdez

Mar 24, 1989

Exxon Valdez oil spill In March of 1989, the ship "Exxon Valdez" ran aground spilling out 11 million gallons of oil into the ocean. The spill caused damage to over 1,3000 miles of shoreline and killing lots of marine animals and birds.

Energy Policy Act

Oct 24, 1992

Methods of using clean energy for the Energy Policy Act The Energy Policy Act is a US policy intended to increase the use of clean energy which would in turn improve the US energy effeciency rate.The Act was renewed in 2005.

Desert Protection Act

Oct 8, 1994

One of many The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 is a federal law that established and preserved 1.6 million acers of desert.

2006: Kyoto Protocol

Dec 11, 1997

World population hits 6 billion

Jan 1, 1999

IPCC report on climate change

Period: Jun 29, 2007 to Nov 1, 2008

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Period: Apr 20, 2010 to Jul 15, 2010