Environmental Science Timeline

Question: Timeline 1500's

Answer: Native Americans would clear land to hunt and grow crops. They would move when local resources were used up so the forest could recover

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Question: Timeline 1600's

Answer: With new settlers- laws passed to save natural resources
1) Plymouth colony - passed law to control cutting and sale of timber
2) Rhode Island colony - deer hunting restricted to 6 months a year
3) Pennsylvania - 1 acre must be left untouched for every 5 acres farmed

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Question: Timeline 1700's

Answer: more settlers arrive
increase demand on environmental resources
westward expansion to find new resources

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Question: Timeline 1800's

Answer: Writers like Thoreau write about need to preserve land for national parks
1st national park - Yellowstone
Organizations to conserve environment - Audobon Society & Sierra Club founded
Laws passed establishing National Forest Reserves

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Question: Timeline 1900's

Answer: 1916 - Congress established National Park Service to promote enjoyment and education
Boy Scouts founded on principe of conservation they way the NativeAmericans
Environmental Protection Agency established
Earth Day established

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Question: Timeline 2000's

Answer: increased global warming
problems with greenhouse effect (flooding, storms, forest fires)
more hybrid vehicles
more renewable energy development
increase in recycling

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