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History 460 Final
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Updated:
9 Dec 2017
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Muir visits Yosemite for the first time
Sierra Club formed
George Perkins Marsh publishes "Man and Nature"
Forest Reserve Act gave presidnet power to set aside forest reserves
Gifford Pinchot born
Pinchot appointed chief of the USDA Forestry Division
Pinchot publishes "The Fight for Conservation"
Pinchot convinced Roosevelt to transfer federal reserve forests to newly created US Forest Service
Pinchot released fight for conservation book;
George Perkins Marsh releases Man and Nature
Hetch Hetchy Dam created in Yosemite
Sierra Club Founded
Forest Reserve Act
Mount Auburn Cemetery built
Small pox appears
small pox aides cortes in conquest of aztec capital
1837 mandan epidemic
Some event happened
horses (brought from europe and escaped from colonists and native owners) are so abundant in western america that ranchers kill them to protect land
Catskill mountain house Resort opens (people searching sublime of wilderness)
Robert Fulton's Clermont steamboat
Erie Canal is finished
Chicago's major fire
NYC fire
Cholera reaches Europe
Cholera reaches Montreal, first outbreak in US
Von Thunens Isolated State (circles of land and relationships to markets)
John Muir born
Three Mile Island; loss of coolant, freaked people out even though nuclear may be cleaner
NYC's Central Park is completed
Celia Thaxter's "Island Garden" flowers as fertility and feminine beauty, women as nurturers
"Lobo King of Currumpaw" by Ernest Thompson Seton
Seton creates "Woodcraft Indians"; teaches rural and suburban children outdoor indian skills; model for boy scouts
US gave Yosemite to California as a state park at urging of Olmsted
Yellowstone becomes nation's first national park
Aldo Leopold born
JD Rockefeller born; used some of his wealth to buy land and gave them to the nation so they could be protected
Dobyns assumes mortality rate of 90% and a pre-Columbian North America Indians of 10-12 million, with pop of entire hemisphere 90-110 million
Clavin Martin publishes "Keepers of the Game"
San Francisco earthquake
populations living in urban surpass rural
David Potters "People of Plenty" argued not about free land but about abundance of natural resources
HJ Habakkuk's "American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century" talks about the difference between America and Europe in terms of abundance of labor and resources; America has resources but no labor, Europe vice versa; explanation of how technology developed
Lacey Act passed
Garrett Hardin popularizes Fisherman's Problem by relabeling it "Tragedy of the Commons"
Hetch Hetchy Dam approved
Rachel Carson' "Silent Spring"
Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac"
Pinchot persuades Roosevelt to transfer federal forest reserves from interior to USDA creating the new US forest service
"midnight forests" Roosevelt forced to sign away power to create new forest reserves; before he did so, he and Pnchot set aside 16 million acres
construction of nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals Alabama to manufacture explosives for WW1
FDR signs in law "Tennessee Valley Authority Act" creating the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA; created to modernize a depressed farming region with new highways, tools and appliances, instruction for farmers
CCC created; groups of young men who would work on conservation measures
worst year of plains drought; 9 inches of rain the whole year
Daniel Burnhams Plan of Chicago; part of new town movement; creating suburbs based off of garden towns in England; combine agricultural and industrial labor without conflict
"the population bomb" a pamphlet compared nuclear war to over population; neo-malthusianism
arrival of first tourist automobile in Yellowstone
first federal duck stamp
Bob Marshall born
LBJ signs the Wilderness Act
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic radiiation accident at Los Alamos
Some event happened
hole in ozone discovered
endangered species act
Daisy nuclear ad for LBJ
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