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| 5. Who was the first-born art naturalist? |
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| 6. Who was the king’s botanist? |
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| a. Reverend, co-author of the Quadrapods of North American with John James Audubon |
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| 8. T/F. In 1820, 9 out of 10 paintings on a gallery walls were landscape paintings |
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| FALSE. Only 1/10. Landscape paintings were not popular |
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| 9. T/F. John Muir and Gifford Pinchot were both forest preservers. |
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| 10. John Muir and Gifford Pinchot were on opposing sides of what issue? |
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| Hetch Hetchy. a. John Muir and the Sierra Club fought for a decade to save Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley, but lost the fight. Gifford Pinchot was for the damming of the Hetch Hetchy by the O’Shaughnessy Dam. |
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| 11. What is Hetch Hetchy? |
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| a. A dam in the middle of a natural valley. b. John Muir fought and lost his battle. |
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| 12. Who was Gifford Pinchot? |
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| a. Forester/ partner with John Muir at one point. b. Pinchot became chairman of the committee to get the dam in Yosemite and then became combatants over the issue |
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| 13. Aldo Leopold is responsible for what area? |
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| a. Gila National Forest in Mexico—first wilderness area |
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| 14. What did Aldo Leopold write? |
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| 15. National Wilderness Act—1964 |
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| 16. Who has most control of land management? |
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| a. Bureau of Land Management |
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| 17. What national feature did Thomas Jefferson acquire and use as his “Camp David” today? |
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| a. “Gateway to the West”—The Natural Bridge of Virginia |
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| 18. Chief Seattle Quotes: |
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| 19. What is the large survey system that goes from Pennsylvania, Ohio border all the way across the country with a few small exceptions like Louisiana? |
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| 20. Townships are how big? |
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| a. 6 square miles, 36 sections in each township |
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| 21. What was the section number of the school board section of the township? |
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| 22. 4 other sections being held of government use? |
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| a. On the inside, 8, 11, 26, 29. Future public use. |
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| 23. United States forestry service is in what department of the government? |
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| 24. Park service is in what department of the government? |
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| 25. Bureau of land management is in what department of the government? |
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| 26. Fish and wildlife service is in what department of the government? |
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| 27. What was on Thomas Jefferson tombstone? |
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| a. Author of the declaration of American Independence b. Author of the Statute of Virginia of religious freedom c. Father of the University of Virginia d. Fact that he was president of the US—not on tombstone |
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| 28. Thomas Cole, 5 paintings, The Course of Empire (LIST THEM IN ORDER) |
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| 1. The Savage State, 2. The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 3. The Consummation of Empire, 4. Destruction, 5. Desolation |
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| 29. Who was the author of the first international best seller from the New World published in 4 languages? |
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| 30. What are the survey systems in Louisiana? |
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| French Longlots, Township and range. (Parish and county are not part of the system) |
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| 32. Which of the following is under control of the national park service? |
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| 33. Values of wilderness? |
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| Protection of Natural Areas and their scenic beauty, Recreation encourages man's thinking and creativity, Maintenance of habitat for wildlife and endangered species, scientific research, Benchmark to evaluate if we are doing well. |
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| 34. What were Louis and Clark looking for as the crossed the continent? |
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| a. Water route across the continent, so that they could go by boat, THEY DID NOT FIND IT |
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| 35. Who climbed a 100 ft Douglas Fur just to experience a windstorm? |
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| 36. QUOTE “ And from the eastern boundary of the vast golden flower bed rose the might Sierra miles in height, and so gloriously colored, and so radiant, it seemed not clothed with light, but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city.” |
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| 37. Henry David Thoreau went to what university? |
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| 38. The size of Thoreau’s cabin at Walden? |
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| 39. QUOTE “In wilderness is the preservation of the world” |
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| 40. Who was born in Dunbar, Scotland |
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| 41. John Muir went to what university? |
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| a. University of Wisconsin |
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| 42. Who photographed the mouth of the Holy Cross? |
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| 43. Where was William Henry Jackson's first home in the United States? |
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| 44. What museum had the first collection of photography? |
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| a. Museum of Modern Art, NYC |
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| 45. Who helped establish the first collection of photography? |
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| 46. Who is given credit for the zone system of photography? |
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| a. Ansell Adams (Zone System = going from blackest black to whitest white) |
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| 47. Ansell Adams was a ___ before he was a photographer. |
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| 48. QUOTE: “in choosing what should be middle grey in the final composition so that you will get detail in the white and detail in the black |
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| 49. Got the Louisiana Purchase from what country? |
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| 50. What is happening in the Atchafalaya? |
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| a. Land is raising because of sediment deposits from flooding of the Mississippi, Dynamic Landscape |
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| 51. First person to come up with the idea of national parks? |
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| a. George Catlain (Indian painter) |
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| 52. Who wrote "Letters and notes on the manners and customs of Indians", 1841? |
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| 53. Who was Thomas Moran? |
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| a. Painter—painted grand Canyon of Yellowstone |
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| 54. The video, Wild by Law, highlighted 3 people? |
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| Aldo Leopold, Bob Marshall, Howard Zeinizer |
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| 55-58 Skipped (IT'S THE 3 PEOPLE |
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| 59. T/F - Recreation is a value of wilderness. |
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| 60. Who could be the poster child for transcendentalism? |
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| 61. Who came up with “all men are created equal”, Declaration of Independence? |
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| 62. Chicken coop owned by? |
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| 63. Quadrapods? Two people. Who? |
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| a. Four-legged animals. John James Audubon and John Bachman |
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| a. Yellowstone National Park |
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| 1. Who wrote The Marks of Human Passage? |
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| 2. Who was The Marks of Human Passage about? |
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| 3. What was Wallace Stenger’s novel, The Marks of Human Passage about? |
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| The conversation of Echo Park and the prevention of a dam being built. |
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| 4. Who is the last author in the David Harmon’s book, Mirror of America: Literary Encounters with the National Parks? |
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| 5. Why was De Voto chosen to be the last author? |
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| De Voto pulls Stegner into the controversy (about the dam being built) |
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| 6. Who was Bernard De Voto? |
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| Sat at the "Easy Chair" at Harper's Magazine. Able to write about the controversy. Picked up by Reader's Digest. Echo Park is in the 1950s, 40 years after Hetch Hetchy |
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| 7. In what magazine was Bernard De Voto’s piece reproduced? |
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| 8. De Voto and Stegner are friends—according to Harmon. Describe the relationship |
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| Relationship between them can be described as birds of a feather, friends, combatants |
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| 9. Who brought Stegner into the Echo Park controversy? |
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| 10. Who is the second to last author in Mirror of America: Literary Encounters with the National Parks? |
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| 11. Who wrote Hawaiian Volcanoes? |
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| 12. What was Hawaiian Volcanoes about? |
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| Mark Twain wrote about when he went "hot footing" at night in Hawaii's volcano areas |
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| 13. Who went “hot footing” across volcanoes? |
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| 14. Who wrote “Should cards be allowed in Yosemite”? |
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| b. He is a member of British Parliament |
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| 16. Who wrote The Factories of Lowell Massachusetts? |
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| Charles Dickens. Also wrote "Christmas Carol", where he criticizes society |
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| a. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston preacher who left to become a writer/lecturer) |
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| 18. What did Henry David Thoreau write? |
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| a. “Ktaadn” in the Maine Woods |
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| 19. Charles Dickens asked his readers to compare which of the following US towns with the haunts (pots) of desperate misery? |
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| 20. What is another name for Samuel Clements? |
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| a. Mark Twain—pen name for Samuel Clements |
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| 21. Mark Twain compared Vesuvius to Kilauea. Vesuvius looks like a "____" |
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| a. Kilauea is much bigger. Vesuvius looks like a soup kettle. |
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| 22. Who delivered a series of speeches for the importance of National Parks? |
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| 23. These places: Valley of Humiliation, Great Relief, and Gothic Gallery? |
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| a. Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Bayard Taylor in "A Second World" |
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| 24. Who wrote about Mammoth Cave? |
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| a. Bayard Taylor in “a Second World” |
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| 25. Who wrote “A Second World”? |
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| 26. T/F: Critics only gave Taylor credit for filling expectations of his mid 19th century readers. |
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| 27.. T/F According to David Harmon, Echo Park marks a victory for the conservationists and marked their coming as a political force. |
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| 28. T/F According to David Harmon, Echo Park marks the beginning of the use of ecology in conservation movement. |
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| 29. T/F According to David Harmon, Echo Park marks the coming of age in the environmental movement. |
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| 30. Dinosaur National Monument is associated with which of the following? |
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| A. The Green and Yampa Rivers. B. Echo Park/Canyon. C. Earl Douglas. D. Utah. E. ALL OF THE ABOVE. F. GREAT SALT LAKE IS NOT ASSOCIATED!! |
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| 31. Who wrote Epilogue: Footloose in Democracy? |
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| 32. Carnegie Museum—Andrew Carnegie. Wanted a ___ for the museum |
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| 33. Andrew Carnegie sent whom out on a person commission to find things to full the Carnegie Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburg? |
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| 34. Where did Earl Douglass find the dinosaur bones? |
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| 35. What establishment did Earl Douglass push for and establish, for the protection of his dinosaur diggings from souvenir-hunters? |
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| a. Dinosaur National Monument in Pittsburg |
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| 36. What author wrote “ Aesthetics, one may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one was felt it is left remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, and intensification. The Parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizen.” |
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| 37. Who wrote “This is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and its Magic Rivers?” |
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| Earl Douglass tried to protect his dinosaur diggers from? |
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| 40. What was the name of the piece that Bayard Taylor wrote about Mammoth Cave? |
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| 41. Who wrote the following “According to Jackson, who, in his capacity of geological surveyor of the State, has accurately measured it, the altitude of Ktaadn is 5300 feet, or a little more than one mile above the level of the sea, and he adds, “it is then evidently the highest point in the State of Maine, and is the most abrupt granite mountain in New England.” |
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| 42. Who got the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for “Across the Wide Missouri”? |
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| 43. Who wrote “Worlds for the Wild”? |
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| 44. Who wrote “The Control of Nature”? |
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| 45. How does Charles Fryling, Jr. (“Big Daddy”) fix his hair? |
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| a. “Fryling is a tall man with a broad forehead, whose hair falls straight to his eyes without the slightest suggestion that a comb or brush has ever been invited to intrude upon nature.”—McPhee |
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| 46. How does Charles Fryling Jr. keep his garden? |
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| a. “In 1973, when he moved into his house, on the periphery of Baton Rouge, it sat on a smooth green lawn, in a neighborhood of ranch contemporaries, each on a smooth green lawn. Fryling’s yard is now a rough green forest, its sweet gums, grapevines, pepper vines, rattan vines, hackberries, passionflowers, and climbing ferns a showcase of natural succession. In Fryling’s words, “It beats the hell out of mowing the lawn.” The trees are 30 feet high.”—McPhee |
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| 47. Who wrote “A Nation’s Park”? |
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