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Henry David Thoreau
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John Muir
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Teddy Roosevelt
The conservation legacy of Theodore Roosevelt is found in the 230 million acres of public lands he helped establish during his presidency. Much of that land - 150 millions acres - was set aside as national forests. Roosevelt created the present-day USFS in 1905, an organization within the Department of Agriculture. The idea was to conserve forests for continued use. An adamant proponent of utilizing the country's resources, Roosevelt wanted to insure the sustainability of those resources. -
George Perkins
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Gifford Pinchot
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Alice Hamilton
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Yellowstone National Park Established
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Aldo Leopold
American author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. Born in 1887 and raised in Burlington, IA. A little more than a year after his death, Leopold’s collection of essays, A Sand County Almanac, was published. With more than two million copies sold, it has become one of the most respected books about the environment ever published, and Leopold has come to be regarded by many as the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th century. -
Lacey Act
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First National Wildlife Refuge
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United States Forest Service
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Antiquities Act
The Antiquities Act of 1906 gives the President of the United States the authority to create national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. This act stemmed from concerns about protecting prehistoric Native American ruins and artifacts. Removal of artifacts from these lands by private collectors or "pot hunters," had become a serious problem by the end of the 19th century. Since its pass it has been used over 100 times. -
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Her book highlighted the connection between the pesticide DDT and the decline of populations. -
National Park Service
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Jimmy Carter
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Edward Abbey
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Dust Bowl
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CCC
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Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
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Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act
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FFDCA
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Al Gore
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Clean Air Act
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Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act, signed into law in 1964, created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." -
Cuyahoga River Fire
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NEPA
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First Earth Day
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OSHA
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Clean Water Act
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Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is one of the few dozens of US environmental laws passed in the 1970s, and it protects species that have struggling populations. Recently the law is becoming controversial because of the law getting in the way of building infrastructure because the law protects critical habitats that some animals require. -
OPEC
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CITES
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Love Canal
1910 a canal was created. The canal was used as a chemical waste dump. These chemicals leaked due to a heavy rainfall in 1976. The effects of these lead to birth defects, and multiple illnesses among the town of Love Canal. Four years, the people battled the government to allow them to buy their homes so they can leave and be safe. In August 7, 1980 the government announced they would buy their homes. This event lead to multiple EPA acts like the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Superfunds. -
TMI Incident
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Union Carbide Explosion
On the night of December 2, 1984, methyl isocyanate (MIC) was released into the town that was surrounded by it. An estimated 500,000 were exposed to the gas, and 8,000~ died. The event was stated that lack of management and maintenance led to a backup of water into the tank triggering the event. The Union Carbide Corporation claims it was an act of sabotage on the tank itself. The UCC was ordered to pay $470 million dollars for the accident and the injuries. -
Superfund
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EPCRA
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Chernobyl
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Montreal Protocol
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Exxon Oil Spill
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Oil Pollution Act
This act gave the EPA an ability to respond and prevent drastic oil disasters. This act enforces liability onto the parties involved. After the Torrey Canyon spill and the Santa Barbara Channel incidents, oil spills became an issue. Originally, the Oil Pollution Act of 1924 only covered deliberate spills into marine water, while the new act contained any type of spill for any cause into waters. This law has been very useful in the world today, making safety and prevention of spills less likely. -
Kyoto Protocol
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Deep Water Horizon
April 20, 2010, the Deep Water Horizon oil rig had a massive oil spill. Eleven people went missing and were never found and it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. An estimated total of 4.9 million barrels discharged from the spill. It took around 5 months to seal the leak. Oil cleanup crews worked four days a week on 55 miles of Louisiana shoreline throughout 2013. In July of 2015, BP agreed to pay $18.7 billion of fees for the accident.
