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Thomas Mathus predicted that exponential population growth would outpace linear food production, leading to starvation.
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He was known as the "The Father Of The National Park System" because he help preserve the national parks from writing letters to congress to preserve them. He is famous from saving the Yosemite and Sequoia Parks.
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Walden other named "Or Life In The Woods" was a book by Henry Thoreau who isolated himself from society to get a better understanding of it. He had a cabin near lake Walden and in the book he writes about his experiences while living in the cabin.
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The Act was placed by President Lincoln that let people who didn't take arms againist the US, was 21 or older, or head of household could apply to claim a federal land grant.
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The American Forestry Association is dedicated to help protect and restore healthy forest ecosystems.
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The Act made about 16 million acres of forest to be set aside for federal use in the Yellowstone area.
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founded by John Muir it was a club that explored, enjoyed, and protected the wilds of the earth.
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The Lacey Act protects all wildlife and plants from being taken, sold, or traded and the act made civil and criminal penalties against people who violated the wildlife .
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He attended Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. He is known for being "The father of wilderness conservation".
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Conservation of birds, wildlife and other healthy ecosystems.
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U.S. forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture which administers 20 national grasslands and 155 national parks.
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Served as the first Chief of the US Forest Service and was also the Governor of Pennsylvania.
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Congress became upset because Roosevelt was waving so much forest land so they banned further withdrawls.
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provided assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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Was a public work relief program for unemployed and unmarried men from relief families.
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Federal law that regulates the grazing of public lands to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.
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Stamp required by the federal government to hunt migratory waterflow like geese and ducks.
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Federal Government agency dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.
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She studied the Kasakela chimpanzee commuinity on their social and family lives.
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This book was writen to help spread the concern about the American environment and helped lanuch the American environment movement.
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Made the legal boundaries for the wilderness in the U.S. and protected 9.1 million arces of the federal land.
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Protected wild and scenic rivers from having development on them that would change their nature.
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National policy that promotes the enhancement of the environment.
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This fire started many water pollution control organizations and showed how polluting water is harmful and can be dangerous.
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He established a lot of new organizations that had to deal with the environment.
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Laws designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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Agency by the federal government created to protect human health and the environment by enforcing regulations based on laws passed by congress.
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Federal law that regulates to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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Raised oil prices due to the U.S. aidiing Isreal during the Yom Kippur War.
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CFC is chlorofluorocarbon which is an organic compound that contains carbon, chlorine, and fluorine which is produced into methane and ethane.
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Federal law which governs the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
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Federal law that governs water pollution and control toxic waste pollutants.
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Federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining.
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Lois Gibbs was a mother of the Love Canal area and her son begin to become sick with epilepsy, suffered asthma, a urine problem, and low white blood cell count. All of these came from leaked chemial waste and they found out they were living on 21,000 tons of buried chemical waste.
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The accident was a meltdown in one of the nuclear reactors on 3 mile island.
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Federal law that preserved lands in Alaska for many different purposes like for the native alaskans, national parks, and wildlife refudges.
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He had a different perspective than Jimmy Carter and wasn't big on the environment during his years as president.
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The worlds worst industrial disaster which came from a pesticide plant in Bhopal. The cloud exposed people to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals.
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Federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances.
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A nuclear accident that occured at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The explosion and fire released large amounts of radioactive particles into the air which spread around western USSR and Europe.
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Worldwide treaty to help protect the ozone layer by telling people the substances that are believed to be responsible for ozone depletion.
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Big oil spill in the Bligh Reef in Alaska and in result the second biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
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Addressed alternative fuel sources and regulated the minimum number of light duty alternative fuel vehicles required in certain federal fleets.
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Federal law that establishes the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert.
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International treaty to industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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