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Category: Otro
Actualizado: 9 ene 2019
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1630
Massachusetts Bay Colony offers a one
shilling bounty per wolf killed.1646
Portsmouth, rhode island entacts the first closed season on deer hunting.1748
South Carolina ships 160,000 deer pelts to
England.1768
The Steller’s sea cow is declared extinct.1832
Carroll's island club,the first known hunting club in the U.S., forms in Baltimore1833
In this single year, the American Fur Com-
pany ships 43,000 buffalo hides, mostly
obtained through trade with the Native
Americans.1836Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes Nature,1844
The New York Sportsmen’s Club forms1854
Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden, his
treatise on the solace of nature.1886
A census reveals that only 540 bison remain
in the entire U.S., mostly in the Yellowstone
area of Montana.1881
Approximately 60 ring-
necked pheasants from
Shanghai, China, arrive in
Washington state.1891
Congress passes the Forest Reserve Act and
creates Shoshone National Forest, the na-1898
Division of Forestry, renamed the U.S. Forest
Service in 1905.1900
Congress passes the Lacey Game and Wild
Birds Preservation and Disposition Act, mak-
ing it a federal offense to transport illegally
taken wild game across state borders.1914
The last passenger pigeon
dies in the Cincinnati Zoo.1916
Congress creates the National
Park Service.1933
sor of wildlife management in the U.S.
at the University of Wisconsin.1934
Congress passes the Fish and Wildlife
Coordination Act to ensure collaboration1935
The Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural
Resources Conservation Service) forms.1937
Congress passes the Pittman-Robertson Federal
Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (P-R Act), which
levies a tax on certain hunting equipment to be
used for wildlife restoration projects, research,
and education1962
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, docu-
menting the potentially harmful impacts of
pesticides on wildlife. By some accounts this
book launched the modern environmental
movement.1964
Congress establishes the Land and Water Con-
of all Americans,” and President Lyndon John-
son signs the Wilderness Act and the Wild and
Scenic Rivers Act.New
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