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Sep 6, 1000
Agricultural Revolution
Actual occurence: 10,000 BC. -
Industrial Revolution
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Thomas Malthus
Predicted that exponential population growth would outpace linear food production, leading to starvation. -
John Muir
Advocate for wilderness preservation. His efforts helped preserve Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walden serves as a critique of the materialist and consumerist attitudes of modern Western society, but stresses the importance of engaging with the better parts of society. -
Homestead Act
The Acts allowed for expansion by reducing the cost of land to almost nothing. -
Yellowstone National Park founded
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American Forestry Association founded
The American Forestry Association is a non-profit group dedicated to protecting habitats and restoring ecosystems. -
Yosemite & Sequoia National Parks founded
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General Revision Act
Allowed the President to set aside areas of forest growth as national preserves. -
Sierra Club founded
"To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives."
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Lacey Act
The Act creates a variety of civil and criminal punishments for an array of violations (ex. trade in illegally imported plants and animals). -
Golden Age of Conservation (Theodore Rooosevelt)
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First national wildlife refuge established
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US Forest Service founded
The USFS administers to the United States' National Forests and Grasslands (155 and 20, respectively). -
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Agency (1905) until he was fired (1910). -
Aldo Leopold
Leopold was an advocate for eology and biodiversity, and helped develop the modern system of environmental ethics. -
Audubon Society founded
The Audubon Society is one of the oldest non-profit environmental conservation groups in the world. -
Antiquities Act
The Act allowed the President to set aside public-owned federal land for preservation or limited use. Devil's Tower is pictured. -
Congress v Roosevelt
Congress became upset because Roosevelt was waiving so much forest land, so they banned further withdrawals. -
US National Park Service founded
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Dust Bowl
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Civilian Conservation Corps founded
The Corps was founded to help young men find jobs during the Great Depression, while creating a general natural resource conservation program in every state. -
Soil Conservation Service founded
The Agency improves, protects, and conserves natural resources on private land by cooperating with state and local agencies. -
Taylor Grazing Act
The law regulates grazing on public lands to improve and regulate rangeand conditions and use. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Under this law, a stamp is required to hunt migratory waterbirds, such as ducks and geese. -
Fish plus Wildlife Service founded
The Wildlife Services act to protect resources from damage by wildlife. -
Jane Goodall
Goodall is considered to be one of the leading researchers on chimpanzees and has done extensive work in the field of wildlife conservation/ protection. -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
The book, which criticizes the chemical industry and public officials, is credited with aiding the creation of the modern environmental movement. -
Wilderness Act
The Act provides a definition of the word wilderness and protects 9.1 million acres of land. -
Garett Hardin introduced the Tragedy of the Commons
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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
The Act protects rivers that are designated as wild or scenic from development that would damage their wild/ scenic nature. -
Richard Nixon
Nixon was a support of environmental reform. -
Cuyahoga River in Clevelang, Ohio caught fire
13 fires on the river helped to create the Clean Water Act. -
NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
The act required all federal agencies to provide environmental assessments and environmental impact statements. -
First Earth Day
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Environmental Protection Agency established/ Clean Air Act
The EPA writes and enforces regulations in conjunction with laws passed by Congress. The Clean Air Act was passed to limit air pollution on a national level and requires the EPA to pass regulations to protect public health. -
Endangered Species Act
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OPEC oil embargo
OPEC declared an oil embargo on the US in response to the US aiding Israel in the Yom Kippur War. -
Sherwood Roland and Molina announce that CFCs are depleting the ozone layer
CFCs are compounds used as solvents, refridgerants, and propellants. They have been phased out of use due to their depletion of the ozone layer. -
FIFRA
FIFRA is a federal law designed to regulate pesticides to protect consumers and the environment. -
RCRA
The Act is widely known for standards set for the treatment/storage/disposal of harzardous waste. -
Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act calls for the removal of toxic waste from waterways, eliminaing future pollution, and assurance fr safety for recreational activities. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
The Act creates programs for regulating active coal mines and reclaming abandoned ones. -
Love Canal, NY & Lois Gibbs
Expansion of the Love Canal neighborhood encroached onto land where harzardous waste was buried. Residents began to fall ill due to contamination from the waste. Lois Gibbs is an activist involved in the Love Canal crisis. -
3 Mile Island nuclear incident
3 Mile Island was the worst commercial nuclear incident to occur in the United States. -
Alaskan Lands Act
The Act created 43,585,000 acres of national park land in Alaska. -
CERCLA
The law creates the ATSDR, tasked with the cleanup of hazardous waste releases to avoid endangering public health/ safety. -
Bhopal, India
Large amounts of toxic gases were released from a pesticide plant, with about 20,000 total casualties. -
Chernobyl
Nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant created a cloud of radiation that drifted over Eastern Europe (Geiger counter tripped in Sweden led to discovery). -
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol is desgined to slow ozone depletion by phasing out substances associated with its depletion. -
World population reaches 5 billion
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Exxon Valdez
The oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck the Prince William's Reef, releasing almost 750,000 of crude oil into the ocean. -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
The law sets new standards regarding clean energy use and energy efficiency in the United States. -
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol sets mandatory obligations on industrialized countries for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. -
Julia Butterfly sat in tree "Luna" for >700 days to protest deforestation
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World population reaches 6 billion
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World population reaches 7 billion
