Geo 030 Final Flashcards
(107 cards)
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Antiquities Act
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1906 Presidents make geological wonders national monuments
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Rexford Tugwell and the Resettlement Admin
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Relocate farmers in Dust Bowl to conserve Ag
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ML Wilson
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USDA school of philosophy in build self-confident farmers.
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1907 Fulton Amendment
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Creation of National Parks is pushed from president to congress in reaction to midnight reserves
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James Scott’s Wisdom
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Favor reversibility
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Negative effects of Scientific Forestry
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Buildup, Erosion, Monocrop, Insect plagues, Fires, High quality trees. Easy counting
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George Perkins Marsh
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Spent time in Europe in the 1800s and saw need for UTILITARIAN CONSERVATION
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Man and Nature
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George Perkins Marsh
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Who started Adirondack Park?
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George Perkins Marsh
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Gifford Pinchot
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Wealthy Yale boy who studied scientific forestry in Europe
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Who moved DOF to the USDA
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Pinchot
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Liebig’s Law
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Growth controlled by scarcest resource
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Cohokia
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Modern Day St. Louis
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Genisis 1
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Humans dominate Earth
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Genisis 2
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Humans (Adam) tend the Earth
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Genisis 3
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Expulsion from Eden
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Francis Bacon
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Innocence via Religion
Dominion Via Science MASTER NATURE
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Isaac Newton
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Mechanical Earth
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John Locke
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Commodification of all things. You ownt he land you work
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John Muir
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The previous industrialist who becomes blind and founds Sierra Club
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What park and controversy did Muir Deal with
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Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite
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Mary Hemenway
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Audobon Society and Bird Hats
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Lacey Act 1900 and what did start
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Prohibited transportation of illegally killed wildlife. 1973 Endangered Species Act
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Frank Waugh
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1917 LARCH who saw recreation potential is parks.
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Arthur Carhart
Hired to do Trapper's Lake, CO and said to do NOTHING
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Game management and who created it?
Manipulating environment to help animals. Aldo Leopold
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Who proposed the Ice Age in 1837
Louis Agassiz
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Wilderness society
Protect wilderness - roadless areas
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Domestic animals can graze in wilderness
Wilderness act 1964
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The land ethic
1949 Aldo Leopold the complexity of the land and how people, not the go Ernest should take care of it
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William Douglas
Sierra club vs Morton. Rivers can be defended in court.
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Scenic nationalism
Giving America recreation to compete with Europe via national parks
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Louis Agassiz
proposed idea of ice age 1837
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what did the wilderness society do in 1935
fire to protect wilderness (roadless wilderness) areas
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wilderness act 1964
animals can graze in wilderness (domestic)
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What are these ideas from
- the use of land needs economic value
- we have only made soils worse
- land holds the ethics, not the government
aldo Leopold in The Land Ethic
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Inanimate objects should be protected in court
Regulation favors industry
sierra club vs morton william douglas
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Model of national parks?
Yellowstone
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Who favored park infrastructure
Stephen Mater as first director of NPS
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Name 4 Examples of Facade Nature
stocking creeks
fedding bears
killing animals and predators
The yellowstone firefall (yosemite)
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What did George Mendez Wright want?
manage parks scientifically as an ecosystem standard
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1963 STARKAR Leopold Report
Recreate national parks toward their original state and reintroduce predators
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Man always interacts with nature
George Perkins Marsh
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Who put the borough of Forestry into the USDA?
Pinchot
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What did Richard Eli Want
To bring conservation to agriculture
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ML Wilson wants
Rural boys with self confidence
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Who said Power=Knowledge?
Michael focoult
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When were wolves reintroduced?
1995
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Lacey Act
Prohibited interstate transportation of illegally killed wildlife
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What was a New Deal method to enact agricultural democracy?
schools of philosophy
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TVA 1933
Dam projects giving electric to much of rural Tennessee
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1933 CCC
Young men make roads in National Parls
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Soil conservation Service 1935
contour strip cropping
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Who is Alice Hamilton
The first industrial toxin scientist
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Who is Jane Addams
She helped inner city and immigrants with learning programs
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What is Riverside Illinois?
The original MANOR LIKE SUBURBS
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What program lead to mass production of suburbs?
Vets emergency housing program
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chemical warfare-->chemical farming example
aynhydrous ammonia fertilizer
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What is sginificant about the 1956 inetrstate highway act?
it was funded 90% by FED 10% by GM
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Hugh Moore 1954
Invented Dixie cups and The idea of a population bomb
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Thomas Mathus
1798 principle of population the world can only sustain so many people
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Margaret Sanger
Champion of birth control in 1960
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What was so significant about the A BOMB
People finally realized the massive effect or destruction people can have on the world.
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Fairfeild Osborne
1948 our plundered planet said if we continue on this path we will end mankind
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Strontium 90
Heavy carcinogenic metal coming from nucelar bombs
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Eugene Odum
developed the idea of an all inclusive ecosystem
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Rachel Carson
1952 Silent Spring started the modern environmental movement
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1976 NAT FOREST management act
Stop clearcutting
| Increase emphasis of outdoor recreation
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1972 roadless aerea review
Jimmy carter wanted it revised due to what we considered wildnerness areas. Previously believed only areas where humans had no interaction PURITY POLICY
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1976 Federal Land Policy and management act
Bureau of land management oversees leftover land MINING GRAZING TIMBER unchallanged until this point
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What was seen as an overreach of the FED and what did it lead to
federal land policy and management act
| the 1979 Sage Brush Rebellion
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How did Reagan view the environmental movement?
He said the problems were overblown and saw conservationists as extremists
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Where did James Watt work and What 2 things did he say?
Security of Interior
DRILL MORE MINE MORE CUT MORE
GET RID OF EPA ITS LIBERALS VS AMERICANS
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Who is Dave Foremon and what did he inspire?
Earth First REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIONIST
Tree sits
1981 Glen Canyon Dam demonstration
Tree spiking
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Northern Spotted Owl
Threatened in 1990 and used Endangered Species act to protect forests
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Northern Spotted Owl and ecnonomy?
JOBS VS ENVIRONMENT OWL
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What did the 1997 Kyoto policy ask?
To reduce emissions USA did not sign
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Geronimo Trail Fire
in 1991 showed that USFS shouldn't surpress fires
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What is the Malpai Borderlands an exmaple of
Government and private owning land but not managing well
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What did Jim Corbett and Drum Hadley argue about in what meeting?
In the Malpai Bordelands meetins they argued GOV
- let grasslands become shrublands
- suburban development
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Lyn Jacobs
1992 Ranching destroying the west
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Hwo to solve the tragedy of the commons...?
save land through privitization or big gov?
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What movement did the sage brush rebellion inspire
the wise use movement
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Who bought the largest peice of private land and what was it called?
Nature conservancy bought gray ranch
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What idea did grey ranch inspire
the biosphere reserve model
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What 3 areas are in the biosphere reserve model?
ungrazed
limited grazing
range for livestock
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What is a conservation Easement?
Private landowners giving property to third parties to conserve in order to receive tax breaks
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What are grassbanks manage by?
A third party and make
- prescribed burns
- landowner educatiuon
- conserve easement
- watershed restoration
- take care of invasive species
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What happen in 1981 to Purity Pricing
Regulation was taken of milk prices
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What is a CAF and 3 things they do?
CONFINED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS
- 1 company does all processing
- Reduces Labor
- Give animals antibitotics
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RBGH and its significance
Bovine growth hormone made by monsanto
| - it is banned in many places and definitely ahrms animals, but not humans
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Organic Valley Co-ops 1988
Members set standards for operations and SET PRICES not TAKE PRICES
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Horizon organics
CAF style organic operation
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2010 organic grazing rule
livestock must remain outside. this stopped large agro business to not be able to step into organics so easily
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community supported agriculture
consumers invest in their local farmers to share risk
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Love Canal
Starts the 1980 superfund law when a school is built over a superfund site
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What does the superfund act do?
Gatehrs taxes from potential SUPERFUND sites to fund cleanup of others
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"Black Love Canal"
Warren County, NC
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What is the precautionary principle?
How do we limit harm instead of tolerate it?
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Majora Carter
Turned South Bronx into an environmentally friendly area
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What did the national environmental policy act of 1970 require?
Environmental impact statements must be submitted for all federally funded sites
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What is mastistis and what does it come from
utter infection that routes from RBGH
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Which species was the surpreme court test case that provided interpretation of the Endangered Species Act?
Snail Darter
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What book did Robert Bullard Author?
Dumping in Dixie
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IPCC
2007 report scientists agree that global warming is real and human induced
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suante Archeiuius
Discovered the greenhouse affect and thought it would eb a good thing
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What banned the use of CFCs and what was the year
The Montreal Protocol of 1987
