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Environmental Science Merit Badge

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• John Muir founded the Sierra Club in order to find people who shared his joy of exploring nature and protect it

• Thomas Malthus produced a book stating that population growth in the world will out grow food production leading to starvation

• The BSA and U.S. forest service made $5.6 million worth of improvements to parks
• A nuclear reactor blew in Fukushima, Japan after an earthquake that triggered a tsunami
• Scouts do service projects and service hours to benefit the environment to today.

• National Environmental Policy Act was the first 1st environmental law
• Scouting Keep America Beautiful Day
• Clean Air Act limits air pollutants produced
• In 1970, president Nixon established the EPA
• Three Mile Island was the U.S.'s worst nuclear disaster
• Exxon Valdez occurred, leaking million gallons of oil into the ocean

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• The Lacey Act said that you cant kill birds without paying the state
• The Boy Scouts of America was built
• Theodore Roosevelt begins the Golden Age of Conservation
• Boy Scouts built 12,000 war gardens
• The Dust Bowl was a drought coupled with poor farming techniques that led to soil depleting
• Philmont Scout Ranch was established; 127,000 acres

• Author Thoreau believed in the simplicity of life and living in your means, wrote Walden
• Yellowstone National Park is made the first Ntional Park by Ulysses S. Grant