Old Yellowstone Days

The Virginian

April 19, 1775

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who were the nature writers according to David Harmon?

Wister travelled west to write his most famous novel which was?

Who is the main character in Ride the Rockies and Save Your Soul?

Who headed commission of Yosemite Grant?

When Muir met Emerson, he called him a what?

A sequoia (not a negative comment)

He called him this bc – NONE OF THE ABOVE and he was an outstanding species and he was outstanding himself

What month is in the San County Almanac

Who was Aldo Leopold?

Where is San County located?

A Nation’s Park written by George Catlin

            Painted Native Americans, called them noble savages

            Had the first idea of a national park in A Nation’s Park

Good Poetry is difficult to find about national parks

Who used free verse?

            Carl Sandburg

            Promoted by Harriot Monroe who established Poet Magazine

Arthur a part of Chicago Literary Renaissance-

Why should Philadelphia have so many historical events?

   Harry James

Gettysburg National Military Park- Harmon

Nature writers

What is a subdivision of a physiographic province called?

Mississippi River Embankment and Alluvial Plain are examples of?

Central Lowlands, Coastal Plain, and Interior Low Plateau are examples of?

Baton Rouge is in what province? Section?

Province: Coastal Plain

Section: Mississippi River Embankment or Alluvial Plain

The events of April 19, 1775 are related to which National Park?

-       Minute Men National Historic Park

What was the first scenic reserve created by federal action? When?

Yosemite

1864

What was the first national park created? When?

Yellowstone

March 1, 1872

Who went down the Colorado River? When? What place is significant to the river?

John Wesley Powell

1869

Grand Canyon

Where did john Wesley Powell lose his arm?

Battle of Shiloh

Which physiographic province is the Grand Canyon located in?

Judge Cornelius Hedges went where on an expedition? What was it called?

Yellowstone

Washburn Expedition

Where was the idea created to make Yellowstone a national park?

Washburn Expedition

What was the other expedition through Yellowstone? By whom?

Hayden Expedition

Ferdinand Hayden

Who was the photographer that went on the Hayden Expedition into Yellowstone?

Who was the artist that went on the Hayden Expedition?

Thomas Moran

What is the “easiest” place to cross the Colorado River?

Lee’s Ferry

Fredrick Law Olmstead is a part of which park?

Who was Gifford Pinchot?

Gifford Pinchot was a part of the Yellowstone Park Story, True or False?

Which physiographic province is Yosemite in?

Sierra Nevada

Which physiographic province is Niagara Falls in?

Which physiographic province is the Great Salt Lake in?

Basin and Range

Which physiographic province is New York City in?

New England

Which physiographic province is the Minute Men National Historic Park in?

Where is the “North Bridge” located?

Where is the Minute Man statue located?

Who was the president when Yosemite became a National Scenic Reserve?

Abe Lincoln

John Muir is a part of which park?

The larger the denominator in scale the more area it shows, true or False?

Large-scale maps show less area than small-scale maps, true or false?

True

In which direction are the Cascades located relative to the Sierra Nevada?

North

Which 2 physiographic provinces do the Fall Line separate?

The Piedmont and the Coastal Plain

Which map projection is good at showing landmasses near the same size?

Which map projection was published in 1569 and is a cylindrical projection flattened?

Mercator Projection

Which physiographic province drains internally (Internal Drainage)?

Basin and Range

Hillocks, hachures, and contour lines all show what on maps?

Relief/Elevation

Which physiographic province is the “Man in the Cave” located in?

Adirondacks

Which physiographic province does the New York State Constitution protect?

Adirondacks

Mobile, AL is on the Fall Line, True or False?

False

Little Rock, AR is on the Fall Line, True or False?

True

The American Society of Civil Engineers: 7 Wonders of the US – Which is not on the list?

How much land did John Wesley Powell recommended for supporting a family of livestock?

2,560 acres or 4 sections

What Act of Congress set aside land for public protection?

80 acres of water was needed to support a family through stock raising, True or False?

False

Which Physiographic Province: Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, and Painted Desert?

Which Physiographic Province: Red Wood, Port Lovos?

Which Physiographic Province: Mono Lake, Salt Lake, and Death Valley?

Basin and Ridge

Which Physiographic Province: Harper’s Ferry, Baltimore Estate?

Which Physiographic Province: Stone Mtn., Charlottesville, and UVA?

Which Physiographic Province: Cape Hatteras, Atchafalaya?

Which Physiographic Province: Minute Man National Historic Park, Boston, Vermont?

Which Physiographic Province: Grand Tetons, Yellowstone?

What Physiographic Province is shaded?

Filoli Garden was built by the California Water Commissioner and is located on or near the San Andreas Fault, True or False?

True

Who was president when the Antiquities Act was passed?

How many years after the idea of Yellowstone was the Park bill signed?

2 years

Nathaniel Bradford Journal entry, True or False?

 “Those ashes come spring…”

Aldo Leopold

 “Prairie clovers, great scab of bark from roadside…”     

 “The particular oak…sand hill…diameter of 30 inches…”

 “These things I ponder…”

 “Muskrat went under bridge…”

 “I have learned that the only way to approach a feeding muskrat for a good look is to commit myself to a procedure so ridiculous that only a total unselfconsciousness will permit me to live with myself”

 “Stalking is a game played in the actual present”

 “It was quite worthwhile to go down into the canyon on mule-back if only to fall in love with a mile, and to learn what a sure-footed, careful, and docile creature, when he is on his good behavior, a mule can be.”

 “But we were not to be dissuaded or ridiculed out of the adventure. There is always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things.”

“The establishment by the government of great public ground for the free enjoyment of the people under certain circumstances is this justified and enforced as a political duty”

 “This duty of preservation is the first which falls upon the state under the Act of Congress, because the millions who are hereafter to benefit by the Act have the largest interest in it, and the largest interest should be first and most strenuously guarded”

 “The main duty with which the commissioner should be charged should be to give every advantage practical By that which is peculiar to this ground…this peculiarity exists only in this …”

 “Great Civil War…so conceived…. Long endured”

 “It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated, here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on”

 “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion”

Abe Lincoln

Gettysburg address

“I would ask no other monument in my memory nor other enrollment with the famous dead then to be known as the founder of such an institution”

 “Cities call, I have heard them. But there is no voice in all the world so insistent to me as the wordless call of the Rockies I shall go back.”

 “And to think that this show-place has been going on all these days an’ none of we ever saw it”

Adirondacks

Forest Preserve

   N.Y. State Constitution “Forever Wild”

Interior Low Plateaus

Central Lowlands

University of Illinois

Niagra Falls

Basin and Range

  Great Salt Lake

  Death Valley

Redwoods

Point Lobos

Ano Nuevo

Pacific Mountain System

Interior Province

Brooks Range

Artic Coastal Plain

Seven Wonders of the United States

1. Trans - Alaska Pipeline
2. Golden Gate Bridge
3. Hoover Dam
4. Interstate Highway System
5. Kennedy Space Center
6. Panama Canal
7. World Trade Center

NOT WASHINGTON MONUTMENT!!!

GRANT signed NOT Lincoln

In Rocky Province

Antiquities Act of 1906: Established national monuments and land as historic relics to preserve

            President Roosevelt

ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS

New York State Constitution “Forever Wild” protects Adirondack

Olmsted did not have anything to do with these mountains

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA

San Andreas Fault

Fancy Garden and Filolo Mansion

FALL LINE

Differences in underling earth structure such as the river descends from uplands to lower elevations

Little rock, Arkansas- on fall line

Mobile, Alabama- NOT on fall line

MERCATOR PROJECTION MAP

(cylindrical)

1569

Normal at equator and stretched out at poles

           Looks like two maps most the time

WAYS OF SHOWING RELIEF/ELEVATION ON MAP:

Hillocks: picture looks like little hills

Hachures: picture looks like centipede (Line all coming out from center)

Contour lines: Circles inside of circles

*Also the use of color and shading to show relief

WHAT DETERMINES PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGION:

       Combination of landforms, soils, water features, vegetation, and related resources

            Physiographic Region

            Provinces

SMALL SCALE

  Small denominator

Large area

Under the Homestead act of 1862, 160 acres were suggested for family land. How did this change?

John Wesley Powell said 160 acres was too much or too little. He suggested 80 acres with water/irrigation and 2560 acres to support a family through stock raising (4 sections).

True or False. Under the Antiquities Act of 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt established/created National monuments as historic relics or natural wonders in order to protect them.

Who went with Ferdinand Hayden on the Hayden Expedition into Yellowstone?

William Henry – photographer

Thomas Moran – Painter

What expedition was hedges a part of?

How many years did it take for Yellowstone to be signed as a National State Park after the idea was set into action?

Yosemite: First Scenic Reserve Created by Federal Action

1964

Abe Lincoln signed legislation establishing Yosemite grant for “Preservation both of the Yosemite Valley and the Big Tree Groove”   

Frederick Law Olmstead took first steps in federal land preservation

Yellowstone: March 1, 1872

Grant president

First and largest national park

John Wesley Powell in 1869 went down Grand Canyon