Geography Midterm 1 Flashcards

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Scenic nationalism

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Giving America something to identify with as Europe has the coliseum, etc

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What do national parks have the wilderness areas do not

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Roads

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Models as the first national park

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Yellowstone

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Stephen Mather

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First director of NPS 1916-1929

Built park infrastructure to get as many people in as possible

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Facade nature

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Creating nature for tourism

Stocking creeks, killing predators, feeding bears, Yosemite firefall

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George Mendez wright

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First national park biologist

Manage parks as an ecosystem standard

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1963 starker leap old report

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Recreate national parks to their original state. Reintroduction of wolves

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Aldo leopold

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1886 worked to kill predators originally until he learned to think like a mountain

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Frank Waugh

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1917 landscape architect saw the recreational potential of forests

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Arthur carhart

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Decided the best thing to do with a national forest/park is NOTHING

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Louis Agassiz

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Proposed the ice age in 1837. The idea that man is only a small part if works history

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Game management

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Manipulating the environment to help animals. Aldo leopold

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Wilderness society

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1935 first to protect wilderness areas

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Wilderness act

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1964 domestic animals can graze in wilderness

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John muir

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The early industrialist left blind and then drawn to nature. Becomes chief advocate for Yosemite and founds the Sierra club

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Hetch hetchy controversy

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1906-1913 can you build a dam in a national park. We need an organization to oversee these parks

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Mary hemenway

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Blames consumers for buying bird hats, not hunters. She formed the Audubon society

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Why were middle class woman for social reform?

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Home makers of the human race

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Lacy act

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1900 prohibited transportation of illegally killed wildlife

Precursor to the 1973 endangered species act

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Genesis 1

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Humans dominate works

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Genesis 2

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Humans keep and tend the world

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Genesis 3

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Humans expelled from

Eden and are to regain the wilderness to recreate Eden

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Francis bacon

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Gain innocence via religion

Gain dominion via science

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Isaac newton

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Believed earth to be mechanical

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John Locke
Commodification of all things Capitalism People have rights to property that they work
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Liebigs law
Growth controlled by scarcest resource
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Cohokia
The ancient st Louis
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How were native Americans now so nature loving?
Jumping the bull Extinction of large megafauna Burning forests Large cities
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Why is the Pocahontas idea of natives bad?
Dehumanization of natives
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Where did scientific forestry come from?
Europe's need of wood in the 1700s
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What is the doctrine of scientific forestry?
To get the most product
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George Perkins marsh
1801-1882
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George Perkins marsh
Lawyer congress Dartmouth The global man who saw European need for resources and brought ideals to USA.
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Author of man and nature
George perkins marsh
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Who started the adirondack park and why?
George Perkins marsh in order to save the Hudson river. UTILITARIAN CONSERVATION
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Gifford Pinchot
Wealthy Yale Studied scientific forestry in Europe Wanted to treat forests as crops in the department of agriculture