History 460 Final

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