Ecology / Conservation / Planning Timeline Outline

The Holocene Interglacial Period Begins
(Circa 10,000 BCE)

Pioneering Work on Environmental Science and Meteorology
(1546)

Attack on Air Pollution
(1661)

Argument for Forest Management
(1664)

First Book Entirely Devoted to Marine Science and First Oceanographic Study of a Single Region
(1725)

Discovery that Growing Plants Restore Air Vitiated by Combustion or Respiration
(1772)

The First Textbook on Zoogeography
(1777)

Discovery of Photosynthesis
(1779)

The First Patent for Paper Recycling
(April 28, 1800)

The First Book Printed on Recycled Paper, with an Appendix Printed on Paper Made from Wood Pulp
(1801)

Written From a Viewpoint in Harmony with the Modern Ecology Movement
(1802 – 1818)

The Carbon Content of Soil is Produced by Vegetation
(1804)

Geographical-Ecological Plant Associations
(1805)

Animal Ecology
(1824)

First Description of the Greenhouse Effect
(1824)

The First Ecological Experiment; Source of Darwin's Principle of Divergence
(1826)

Theory of the Ice Age; Global Cooling and Warming
(1834 – 1841)

Mathematical Model of a Continuously Growing Population
(1838)

Beginning of the American Conservation Movement
(1846)

Marsh's First Publication on Ecology
(September 30, 1847)

"In Wildness is the Preservation of the World."
(1851)

First Widely Read Textbook of Oceanography and Atmospherics
(1855)

The Beginning of the American Petroleum Industry
(August 27, 1859)

Forest Ecology
(1860)

Fountainhead of the Conservation Movement
(1864)

The Philosophical Justification for Public Preservation of Great Natural Scenery
(1865)

The Wallace Line
(1869)

Forest and Stream Magazine
(1873)

The First Comprehensive Global Study of Zoogeography, Including the first Global Biodiversity Map
(1876 – December 2012)

Pioneering Study of Community Ecology
(1877)

Formation of the National Audubon Society
(1886)

Aquatic Ecosystem Science
(1887)

77 Windmill Factories Employ 1,100 Workers in the U.S.
(1889)

The Sierra Club
(May 28, 1892)

The First to Quantify the Impact of Carbon Dioxide on the Greenhouse Effect
(1896)

The Garden City Movement
(1898)

The First Prediction of the Possibility of Man-Made Global Warming
(1908)

Management of Water Pollution
(1911)

The Theory of Continental Drift
(1912)

"Our Vanishing Wild Life"
(1913)

Plant Succession
(1916)

The Basic Equations for Two-Species Interactions
(1926)

Animal Ecology
(1927)

Hundreds of Thousands of Wind Turbines Power Farms in the U.S.
(Circa 1930 – 1945)

Foundation of The Wilderness Society
(January 21, 1935)

DDT is Discovered, and Eventually Banned
(1939 – 1972)

The Birth of Ecosystem Ecology
(1942)

Classic of the Environmental Movement
(1949)

The First Routine Real-Time Numerical Weather Forecasting
(December 1954)

Proving the Feasibility of Weather Prediction by Numerical Process
(1956)

"Silent Spring"
(1962)

The Theory of "Island" Biogeography
(1967)

Nitrous Oxide Impacts the Stratospheric Ozone Layer
(1970)

The Endangered Species Act of 1973
(December 28, 1973)

CFCs Deplete the Ozone Layer
(1974)

Discovery of the Antarctic Ozone Hole
(May 16, 1985)

Soy Ink Introduced
(1987)

The Web's First and Longest Continuously Running Blog
(1993)

Computers Have Not Caused a Reduction in Paper Usage or Printing
(1999)

"Last Child in the Woods" : Exploration of Nature Versus Exposure to Media in Childhood
(2005)

The EPA Begins to Close its Scientific Libraries
(November 20, 2006)

Demanding that the U.S. EPA Desist from Destroying its Libraries
(November 30, 2006)

The Film "Avatar" and Visions of Reality, Virtual and Otherwise
(December 10, 2009)

Paperbecause.com Makes the Case for Using Paper
(October 27, 2010)

Seventy Online Databases that "Define Our Planet"
(December 3, 2010)

The Environmental Impacts of eBooks and eBook Readers
(March 2011)

Koomey’s Law of Electrical Efficiency in Computing
(March 2011)