Environmental History Timeline—due Monday, January 5th
Below is a list of important persons who have played major roles in shaping environmental history, as
well as events and laws that are also significant.
Directions: Please type part “a” and in general make an organized and neat timeline.
a. Look up each person, event, or law and write one or two sentences IN YOUR OWN
WORDS in 3 sentences about why that person, event, or law is important to
environmental science. Most of the people contributed some sort of writing that is well
regarded. List what they wrote if possible and what it was about. For the events,
describe what happened. For the laws (acts, treaties), what were the basic provisions of
each? For every person, find the date(s) when they significantly contributed to
environmental history (for example, when they wrote their influential work). For the
events and laws, find the dates when they happened. You do not need to write copious
amounts of information, however, you should have a solid understanding of each item.
These people, events and laws are fair game for the APES exam, as well as the midyear.
b. Make a timeline and put each of the people, events, and laws on the timeline in
chronological order. You do not have to do any drawing, but the date and what was
happening must be clear. Your timeline should be accurately spaced as it would be in a
graph. There were periods of time when very few events occurred and other periods
when many events occurred.
People:
Rachel Carson
Paul R. Ehrlich
Garrett Hardin
Aldo Leopold
John Muir
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
Events:
Accident at Chernobyl
Dust bowl in the Midwest
Yellowstone National Park
Cuyahoga River burns
Accident in Bhopal, India
Love Canal, New York
Accident at Three Mile Island
Wangari Maathai
Minimata (disease)
Laws:
Kyoto Treaty
Montreal Protocol
Clean Air Act(s)
Clean Water Act(s)
Endangered Species Act
Superfund
FIFRA
National Environmental Policy Act
Food Quality Protection Act
Executive Order 12898 (Bill Clinton)
Healthy Forest Initiative (GW Bush)
Occupational Safety and Health Act
(OSHA)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
**This list is not a comprehensive list of what you need to know for the AP Exam. It is however, a start. 
Reminders!
 When you are researching, whether in your book or on the internet, put ideas in your own
words.
 Do not include opinions!!