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Certain resources are manageed due to some strategy to maintain or improve some condition
Oil is strategically regulated |
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Resources are seen for their beauty, prompt efforts for preservation
Forests, National Parks, Lakeshores |
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| Resources are not for the use of humans, they are important elelments of the earth that should be protected |
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Resources are considered goods that can be developed into products
A forrested area is a commodity for builders and lumber yards |
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| How many people are added to the earth each day? |
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| Which contries consume the most resources? |
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| United States and Europe (12% of the population) consume 60% of all resources in comparison to all other countries |
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| Technology helps use to produce products faster, however they require resources to be made and they produce goods quicker and therefor eating up even more resources |
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| a typical meal can travel an average of 1,500 miles before reaching your plate |
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| Effect of longer work hours |
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| people no longer have the freedom or lesiure time that they used to. A high demand for closer leisure oppotunities exist as a result |
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| 85 people posses more wealth than 3 billion combined |
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| certain rights that an owner has over his property, however these rights can be limited by laws such as zoning |
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| Resources that are owned by all, but are typically regulated by the government for "fairness" |
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Managed due to scarcity or overall value of a resource
coal is scare
grand canyon is valauble due to scarcity |
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Onwer contains most of the rights and responsibilites associted with a property or resource.
Personal Home/Automobile |
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| device of land use planning used by local governemnt to protect people from their neighbors |
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| The idea that the overall goo of the people is more important than the desires of an individual |
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| Humans have demain over earth |
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| Science and Knowledge inspired people to make new discoveries |
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conquest of new nations led to invasive species and ecological problems
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| Americas self-proclaimed right to expand west to the pacific ocean, nothing would stop this pursuit |
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The many ways in which a piece of land can be used 80% of federal land is under multiple use
Mining
Logging
Fresh Water
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| Recreational Carrying Capacity |
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| The amount of human interaction an wilderness area can support befre the effects become irreversable |
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| People are more worried about themselves than others, take more than their fare share of the resources without being concerned about the impacts |
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Market hunting, over cutting, over mining led to environmental disasters- fires and floods. Watersheds destroyed
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| Agreement that enacted the sale of lands that had been maped out by Cadastral Survey System |
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Artists sound alarm after viewing precious resources being destroyed and exploited- Catlin, Cole, Moran and others
Writers like Thoreau, Muir, Marsh and Emerson joined in
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| connected people to nature and spirituality not necessarily to god. |
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| First National Park that was set aside in 1872, first step towards managing resources wisely |
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| point in u.s. history when a tide of exploiation was met with waves of opponents bearing arguments against the status quo |
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Period of social activism and political reform between 1890's and 1920's
wave of new thinking that believed in people ability to combine science and technology to improve their lives |
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president of Sierra Club
"in wildness is preservation of the world" |
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| calling for modern forest management |
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Founded in 1916, 44 years after the foundadtion of the first national park
Goal is to great a "National Park Experience" and minimalize human impact |
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1st foray into ecology, written in 1949 by Aldo Leopold |
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| Passed in 1906, act that streamlined the proces of turning lands into protected areas |
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1960, passed to manage resources such as timber water grazing, minerals, wildelife and outdoor recreation
ecosystem management |
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Rachel Carson's
Silent Spring |
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Carlson spoke out against pesticides and clearcutting and their devastation to the creatures of our ecosystems
spurred |
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| First official earth day was held in 1970 |
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| more recent manifestation if the evolution of our ethic toward the land and its resources |
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Bureau Of Land Management
United States Forest Service
Bureau of Reclamation |
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| Responsible for nation parks, monutments, hisotric sites, seashores, recreation areas and preserves |
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| US Fish and WIldlife Service |
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| Manages the national wildlife refuge system and had regulatory authority over a broad array of wildlife laws and treaties |
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| Bureau of Land Management |
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| Manages Public Domain Lands or leftover lands that nobody else wants, responsible for 270 million acres wirth mineral rights on 570 milliom acres |
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| Environmental Protection Agency |
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| main regulatory agent of the government in regards to the environment |
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| National Environmental Policy Act |
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Passed in 1970, federal agencies must follow to evaluate potential impacts to land by agency actions.
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| Place where you can read all proposed federal regulations |
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| Code of Federal Regulations |
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| PLace where you can view all current/existing rules and regulations |
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| 5 Levels of US Government |
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| managers of yellowstone prior to the NPS |
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| estblished lands and agencys to regulate them simulataniously |
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felt urge to bring more people to parks
built a political base
requested $ from Congress for roads
created concession to regulate business |
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| require highest level of land protection by the NPS |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| founded under roosevlets Work Projects Administration (WPA), put to work to aggresively building roads, bridges, trails and stuctures within parks and monuments |
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| system wide expenditure and development program aimed at increasing access, visitor services and accomodations in a 10 year plan |
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| Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission |
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| 1965 to obtain money to buy additional lands |
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| Forest Reserve Act of 1891 |
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| First act to ever set aside forest reserves |
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for preserving and protecting forests, water and timberadministered by Interior later given to Agriculture |
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| Founded in 1901, first dept head was giford pinchot a trained forester |
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| Sustained Yield Act of 1960 |
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| equated that wilderness and recreation was equal to timber production |
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25% Federal
20% Commercial Forest
75% of fresh water is located on USFS land |
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| How many national forests? |
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| 155, each has its own supervisior, staff and rangers |
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| Cheapest bulk land purchase ever made by the U.S. , aproximately .3 an acre |
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160 acres for free is settled and managed in 5 years or 1.25 an acre
lands given to soldier for their service to their country |
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Each state got 30,00 acres of federal land for each us senator and congressman
Land Grant Universities |
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| Federal Land Policy Act of 1976 |
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| any land of choice may be turned into federal land under multiple use policy |
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4% cattle
25% Sheep
Subsidized ranching |
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| prohibited interstate transportation of wildlife killed illegally-realted to passenger pigeon plight |
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| Founded in 1903, first wildlife refuge, 55 more followed suit |
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triggered protection of habitat to protect a species
not always accepted by the public |
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