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Yellowstone Act
Yellowstone was declared the first national park dedicated for the enjoyment of the people and for the preservation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, and national wonders. This is important because this is the first major event for conservationism. This impacts the community because we are able to go see the natural wonders of this place and the preservation of the park is beautiful to look at. -
Lacey Act
The Lacey Act prohibited the transport of illegally obtained wildlife across state lines, and outlawed hunting in Yellowstone National Park. This is important because hunting would regulate overpopulation of animals, so we have a would have a hard time to regulate animal production. This affects us today because we can preserve wildlife in the national park. -
Burton Act
This act preserved Niagara Falls from hydroelectric power facilities. It limits the output of water that the US could use out of the falls. Teaching water regulation is very important, because if we ran out of water fro the falls, no one would visit Niagara. -
Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Company and Ducktown Sulphur
Georgia filed suit against the Tennessee Copper Company and Ducktown Sulphur because fumes from the companies were coming across the state border and polluting communities, killing forests, and making Georgians ill. Tenessee had to regulate their fumes. Polllutants will make people sick and if we didn't have regulation, people would continue to et sick and the enviroment would be impacted for the worse. -
National Park Service
This is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all U.S. national parks. We preserved land and protect it from other outside forces. We need this land for conservation and aesthetic beauty. -
Emergency Conservation Work Act
Preseident Franklin asked Congress to pass this act which states that young men were recruited into a “peacetime army” called the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) which protect against erosion and the destruction of natural resources. this is important because it created jobs and we needed people to protect the natural resources from deteriorating. -
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to "conserve soil" and prevent erosion. This acted the people who then migrated away from the prarier. Without this, we would have lost most of that land. -
Antarctic Treaty
protected Antarctica from the dumping of nuclear waste. 46 countries plus the US signed this treaty which means that this is international. If we didn't enact this treaty, Antartica would be so poullted. -
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson advocated the disuse of DDT and other pesticides because of their dangers. Without this outlaw, many humans woul dbe affect and diseased and killed. -
Clean Air Act
regulated air pollution and emissions. The air becomes cleaner and easier to breathe in. This act protects the public which can be hazardous to human health. -
Wilderness Act
This act established the National Wilderness Preservation System. There are over 90 million acres of preserved wilderness in the U.S which is untouched by the huan population. Untouched land preserves beauty. -
National Environmental Policy Act
1st law of protecting the environment. The Act demanded that all braches of government give proper consideration to the environment prior to building airports, buildings, military complexes, highways, parks, and other activities. The entire gvernment was involved and requires them to to incoporate environmental values when making decisions which benefits the environment. -
Environmental Protection Agency
created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. This is important to enforce national standards and creates responsibility on the government to protect the population and environment. -
"Blue Marble"
This photo puts into perspective all of our enviromental problems. Without this picture we wouldn't know the full extent of the enviromental issues. It raises awareness for other problems too. -
Drinking Water Act
This law was created to protect public health by regulating the nation's public drinking water supply. We still regulate public drinking water for the safety of everyone. -
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
the statute protected over 100 million acres of federal lands in Alaska, doubling the size of the country’s national park and refuge system and tripling the amount of land designated as wilderness. We are preserving the land and we benefit the humans because of their state parks. -
Liability Act
This act provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. Without this, we would have contamination everywhere and have no clean water and land. -
Montreal Protocol
This international treaty is designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. This is an international issue because there is no earth without the ozone layer. -
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
This oil spill dumped 11 million gallons of oil and devestated Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska. This affected the humans that lived there and the marine life slowly decreased. The US learned how to clean up oil spills after. -
Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
The Defenders of Wildlife sued the Department of the Interior to modify the Endangered Species Act to apply to U.S. actions taken in foreign nations, rather than actions only in the U.S. or at sea. The defenders lost and the government has yet to address threatened habitats in foreign countries. -
An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore raises awareness for global warming and the actual truths about climate change. The humans are causing global warming and we need to change our way of life before we slowly destroy the earth. -
San Francisco Oil Spill
South Korea bound container ship struck a tower supporting the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge spilling 58,000 gallons of oil in the San Francisco Bay. This oil spill killed countless seabirds and marine life for years. People organized clean ups and as a community they were able to help seabirds and clean up the ocean. -
Water Quality Act
this act strengthens federal water pollution laws and outlines water quality guidelines for states. We maintain the integrity of the natiion's water so that we can have clean water which benefits everyone in the community. -
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Passed by President Johnson to protect waterways from pollution, commercialization, and development. Having cleaner air impacts a community and the entire nation. Clean water is detrimental to society and without clean water we would not survive. -
Raker Act
This act granted the city of San Francisco the right to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley and create a dam in the Yosemite national park. Citizens are given water rights which shows that people are able to fight for their rights and more power.
