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What would be a timeline history of environmental science in America between 1500-2000 - including Boy Scouts and others?
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1775:
Percival Pott makes connection between human contact with soot and cancer, the first recognition of environmental factors and cancer.
1910:
February 8, 1910: The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated
1914:
First tree-planting project was held in New York
First William T. Hornaday gold medal for the conservation of wildlife
1917/1918 war effort:
Aided in food and fuel conservation projects
Planted 12,000 Boy Scout war gardens
1938:Philturn Rocky mountain Scout camp established for conservation, (35,857 acres of land near Cimarron, New Mexico) (Gift from Waite Phillips.
1940-1949:
Philmont Scout Ranch established
Additional gift from Waite Phillips, 1941
Residence and ranch buildings
Livestock and operating ranch equipment
Contiguous to former Philturn Rocky mountain Scout camp
Total combined acreage: 127,000
Councils and campsites by 1949
543 councils
831 campsites
288,545 acres
1970-1979:
Scouting Keep America Beautiful Day
June 5, 1971
Scouts collected more than a million tons of litter
1980-1989:
First Scouting for Food National Good Turn, 1988
More than 60 million food items were collected
2000-2009:
ArrowCorps5, 2008
In cooperation with the US Forest Service
Oil spill decimates Gulf Coast
3,600 Scouts and adult volunteers participated
$5.6 million worth of improvements made to national parks
The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve, 2009
The single largest gift ever made to the BSA
Near Beckley, West Virginia
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