Environmental History Ch1 Events/People

Environmental History and Timeline Outline

1. Yosemite Land Grant: first parkland set aside by federal government

2. George Perkins Marsh (first environmentalist in US History) → publishes man and nature (first book to provide detailed desc of broad human impacts on environment)

3. Yellowstone national park established as first national park

4. Forest reserve act : president of US can set aside land for national forests

5. Lacey act: wildlife conservation and protection, prohibits trade in wildlife that was illegally harvested, need permit to transport animals across state lines

6. Transfer act: 

7. First of 1910: fires in west, 

8. Organic act:

9. Taylor grazing act:

10. Soil conservation act:

11. FIFRA: federal insecticide fungicide rodenticide act

12. IUCN: international union for the conservation of nature and natural resources - first global environmental union

13. A sand county almanac - aldo leopold

14. Silent sprint - rachel carson

15. US wilderness Act 

16. Tragedy of Commons essay by Garett Hardin

17. Cuyahoga River burns : oil in water

18. Santa Barbara Oil Spill: 3rd biggest oil spill in US waters

19. NEPA: national environmental policy act

20. EPA established: US environmental protection agency

21. “Earth day” : first observance in 1970

22. MMPA: marine mammal protection act signed into law

23. OPEC oil embargo

24. ESA: endangered species act

25. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina: linked CFC’s to stratospheric ozone depletion

26. Clean water act: seeks to restore integrity of nation’s waters by treating water and maintaining integrity of wetlands

27. RCRA: resource conservation and recovery act

28. 3 mile island

29. Comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act

30. Chernobyl (1986)

31. Montreal protocol (1987)

32. Exxon valdez (1989)

33. Clean air act (1990 + amend)

34. Kyoto conference of the parties