Which of the following is not used to define a physiographic province?

Political boundary

We live (BR) in a section of what physiographic province?

Costal plain (section- Mississippi river or alluvial plane)

April 19, 1775 is associated with what?

·      Minutemen National Historic Park, Shot heard around the world, Lexington and Concord

1864 is associated with Yosemite National park 

·      This was when the first scenic Reserve set aside by federal action; it was a law giving the park to Sierra Nevada. Abe Lincoln signed it in the Civil War. 

Who wrote a plan to manage Yosemite, designed roads, and got the law through congress?

Fredrick Law Olmstead 

March 1, 1872 is associated with? 1^st national park ever, and it took 2 yrs to make it a national park

Yellowstone Nation Park 

1869 is associated with what?

·      Grand Canyon, Colorado, and green river (John Wesley Powell and 8 ppl went    down the river, golden spike on transcontinental railroad)

True or False-

John Wesley Powell lost his arm at Gettysburg. 

False, he lost it at Shiloh 

What physiographic province is the Grand Canyon located in?

Colorado Plateau  

Judge Cornelius Hedges is associated with what national park?

Yellowstone National Park 

True or False-

Judge Cornelius Hedges was a member of the Ferdinandy Haden expedition that went to Yellowstone in 1861?   

False, Washburn 

Lees Fairy is associated with which national park?

Grand Canyon Nation Park

True or False-

Lees fairy is on the Colorado River, downstream from the Glenn Canyon Dam?

True 

Who of the following is not associated with Yellowstone National Park?

Gifford Pinchot

What was the occupation of William Henry Jackson? 

Photographer

Who was the first person to envision a national park (Yellowstone)?

George  Catlin – painter

What national park is Paul Revere associated with?

Minutemen National park

Fredrick Law Olmstead is associated with which of the following places?

Yosemite

Which of the following places is not associated with Fredrick Law Olmstead?

Adirondack Reserve

Yosemite National Park is in what Physiographic province?

Sierra Nevada

Niagara Falls is in what Physiographic province?

Central lowlands 

Salt Lake City is in what physiographic province?

Basin and Range ( all drains internally)

Minutemen National Historic Park is in what physiographic province?

New England

You are looking at 3 maps, all the same size of the paper each with a different scale? What scale shows the most area?

1-250,000

Map A has a scale of 1-24,000 and Map B has a scale of 1-400,000.

Which is larger?

Map B is largest

Besides the use of hillock, hachures, and contour lines, how else can you show relief? 

Color and Shading 

Name the forester who worker on the Biltmore estate in North Carolina? (chosen by Fredrick Olmstead)

Gifford Pinchot

The American Society of civil engineers, in 1994, listed 7 wonders of the U.S. Which of the following was not on the list?

Washington Monument 

What did Powell recommend for a family that had irrigation?

80 acres 

Who is considered the father of landscape architecture?

Fredrick Law Olmstead 

What piece of music did Ferdet Rovet compose?

Grand Canyon Sweet 

What did Paul Winters compose? 

Canyon Album, River Run 

Divorchak Composed?

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor and From the new world

Harpers Ferry, Great Smokey Mountains

Blue Ridge

Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, Monticello

Piedmont

Cape Atterick Ookeefenkee, Atchafalaya

Coastal Plain

New York City, Minutemen, Boston, Vermont

New England

John Aster put advertisement in St. Louis paper to engage young men?

Missouri River 

Tim Palmer said, “Surrounded by the horrors of the civil war the president’s action can be a recognition that we can turn to our native landscape” What landscape was he talking about?         

Yosemite National Park

What president signed the Mariposa Yosemite grant in 1864? 

Abe Lincoln 

Name the physiographic province whose water drains internally not to the ocean?

Basin and Range

Map Projection

- angle, distance, direction, area, scale *(a globe is required)

Mercator Projection

1569, Cylinder 

Larger scale

- smaller area, more detail, larger RF #, denominator smaller

Small Scale

larger area, less detail, smaller RF #, denominator larger

Fall line

regions

2 or more psychographic provinces 

The painter that went into Yellowstone with Jackson was?

Thomas Merran

American Society of Civil engineers (7 wonders)

Act that passed that set aside monuments was?

·      Antiquity act 1906

Who designed Central park?

Olmstead and Bow 

Who wrote Mirror of America?

David Harmon 

Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote what piece?

Who were the main characters?

Ride the Rockies and Save your Soul , 1916  

She is the main character.

Which person traveled with Mary Rinehart in her 1916 article?

Howard Eaton

Who wrote old Yellowstone days?

Owen Wister, 1936

True or False-

John Palter wrote Old Yellowstone Days?

Who headed the commission overseeing the Yosemite Grant under the control of the state of CA? (mariposa)

Fredrick Law Olmstead 

True or False-

The report written by Olmstead on Yellowstone has shaped a management of all national parks   

Who received the property of the Yosemite?

The state of CA

The concord hymn commemorates what date? 

·      April 19, 1775 the battle of Lexington concord 

Concord Hymn celebrates what?

What did John Muir call Ralph Waldo Emerson?

He called him a sequoia as a complement 

The month of February was represented by what in Aldo Leopold’s almanac?

The Good Oak

Who is Aldo Leopold? 

• Forrester in Service in National Forrest in Mexico
• proposed wilderness area
• Wrote a lot of newsletters on protecting wilderness
• became professor at University of Wisconsin where San county is located
• Wrote San County Almanac
• Subtitle is Good Oak Title is February

What physiographic province is Leopold associated with? 

Central Lowlands

Who wrote a nations park? 

George Catlin an artist and painter who painted Native Americans aka Indians ( he painted the noble savage)

What was in a nation’s park? 

A column in newspaper writing about the west loves and respects Indians worried about buffalo…proposed? A nations park…the first idea of the national park in 1832

David Harmon stated in preface nature writers were? 

·      John Muir (wrote to the general public) and John Burrows (more popular then)

True or False?

David Harmon stated in Mirror of America the good poetry about parks is easy to define because of the grandeur of national parks? 

·      False….He said it was very difficult to find good poetry about national parks

Who wrote the Virginian?       

Owen Wister  and it was about the west 

Who wrote Free Verse promoted by Harriet Monroe from Chicago?

Karl Sandburg

Name the painter who painted Indians?

George Catlin 

Who wrote Gulping the Great West? 

Thomas Wolfe- 10 National Parks, 13 days, of travel

“Those ashes come spring, I will return to the orchid at the foot of the sprill hill”…           

Aldo Leopold.

 Next morning rejoicing about clovers and fresh sessions of rain and fresh bark of an oak? 

Aldo Leopold “The Good Oak”

“musktcrap… 8in long 6in tall”

Annie Dillard- pilgrim; Pulitzer prize winner 

“Rabbits and mice..Hawks, owls prey on them”

Annie Dillard 

Old immigrant road measured the stump with diameter of 30 inches?

When muskrat went under the bridge he reappears with an 8 inch body? 

It is quite worthwhile to learn what a docile creature is a mule going down? 

Second day on mule back 

We were not to be swayed always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things?

“The main duty… every advantage practical…peculiar to this ground… other parts of the domain… in its natural scenery”… 

Frederick Law Olmstead.

“This duty of preservation is the first... millions that are here can benefit… larger interest should be the first and most strenuously guarded”…

Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing long enduring? 

It is for us the living whether to be dedicated here to the unfinished work they have carried on….these honored dead we take increased devotion”…    

Abe Lincoln. Gettysburg National Military Park

Cities call I have heard them but only voice is call of the Rockies and I shall return? 

Mary Robert Rinehart

I could ask no other monument than reputation of founding such a great institution? 

On tour to the Yellowstone?

What did Thomas Wolfe write?

Gulping of the Great West 

Preservation for all 

·      Olmstead- got lost