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John Muir
John Muir is a scottish-american who is most commonly known as an advocate for the preservation of wildness. He is noted as both an ecological, political, and religous thinker and is significant because he spoke on the importance of enviromental consciouness. Founder of Sierra Club. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, is a book that speaks about the simplicity and reflection that comes with living in a natural enviroment. The book is known as describing Thoreau's life as he lived in a small cabin by Walden Pond. The book shows Thoreau's gained understanding of nature after he immersed himself in it. -
Yellowstone National Park founded
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American Forestry Association founded
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Yosemite plus Sequoia National Park founded
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Sierra Club founded
The Sierra Club is an enviromental organization founded by John Muir. The Sierra Club is commonly associated with the progressive movement, as it is known for enviromental preservation and "green politcs". -
Lacey Act
Lacey Act is a law in the United States that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported, or sold. -
1901-1909 Golden Age of Conservation - Theodore Roosevelt
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First national wildlife refuge established
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Audubon Society founded
An organization that helps protect birds and their habitats. Audubon combines science, education, and policy to help protect birds, wildlife, and our resources. -
U.S. Forest Service founded
An agency that helps protect all of the national forests and grasslands in US states and Puerto Rico. Holds the worlds largest forestry research organization. -
Antiquities Act
Act that was signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt that created national monuments from public lands to protect significant natural, cultural or scientific features. Used to set aside public natural areas as conservative land. -
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold is known as the "father of wildlife". Created the idea of "land ethic" which helped shine a new way of thinking and acting toward the land. Known for communication scientific concepts towards ecology. -
U.S. National Park service founded
Agency that manages and conserves the US national parks. -
1930's Dust Bowl
In the 1930's American suffered from a series of dust storms, known as the dust bowl, that severly hurt the enviroment, -
Soil Conservation Service founded
the NCRS is an agency that helps "people protect that land". This agency works mainly with farmers and/or ranchers to maintain the conservation of healthy landscapes. -
Civilian Conservation Corps founded
Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the first actions of the New Deal. It is a public works project that advocates enviromental conservation through "outdoor labor". -
Taylor Grazing Act
The Taylor Grazing Act is a law passed that provides for the regulation of grazing on public lands. -
Fish plus Wildlife Service founded
A service founded to help protect and conserve habitats for fish and wildlife. -
Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring is an enviromental sciences book written by Rachel Carson that speaks on the effect pesticides have on the enviroment and the horror of the chemical industry. -
Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio caught fire
This is when a river in Ohio caught on fire due to pollute from decades of industrial waste causing $100,000 worth of damage. This river fire was important because once a picture of it was published in Time magazine, the public awareness of the dangers of industrial waste increased. -
First Earth Day
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Environmental Protection Agency established
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Clean Water Act
The clean water act established regulations for the discharges of pollutants into US waters. It is supposed to control waste that enters the waterstream and help keep our water as clean as possible. -
Endangered Species Act
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OPEC oil embargo
members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo. By the end of the embargo in March 1974 the price of oil had risen from $3 per barrel to $12. This embargo began many effects on the global economy. -
Roland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFC*s are depleting the ozone layer
CFC's are an organic compound used in the manufacture of aerosol sprays and solvents, are seen in our ozone layer. -
RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
This act gives the EPA authority to control hazardous wastes, including the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
This act is a law that helps protect the enviroment from active coal mines. -
3 Mile Island Nuclear accident
The 3 mile accident is where there was a partial nuclear meltdown that sparked an anti-nuclear movement and because of the accident also caused an uprising rate of cancer. -
Love Canal, NY
Love Canal was a town that had lots of hazardous waste disposal that was not properly regulated. Citizens of Love Canal found out about the dangers and effects caused on them from living in a town they lived in and started a movement to relocate. -
Bhopal, Indian (chemical toxic cloud kills 2,000)
This was a gas leak in india that is commonly known as the worlds greatest industrial disaster. this gas leak exposed over half a millon people to MIC gas and other chemicals. -
Chernobyl
The chernobyl disaster is a nuclear accident in ukraine that released large numbers of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, that effected over half a million people and exposed cancers around the area. -
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
Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that spilled hundreds of thousands barrels of oil in Alaska. -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
The energy policy act is a law passed that held goals to increase clean energy and improve energy efficieny in the US. -
Desert Protection Act
This act established protection for the conservation of deserts such as Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert. -
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty thats goal is to reduce greenhouse gasses to help control climate change. -
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act was a set of acts from 1963 - 90' that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources, as well as also working to establish high air quality standards for the public. -
NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
NEPA was one of the first laws ever written that established clear framework for protecting our enviroment. NEPA's basic policy insures that every branch of government be responsible for protecting and giving consideration to the enviroment.
