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Geo 030 Final Flashcards

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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

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Hired to do Trapper’s Lake, CO and said to do NOTHING

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Game management and who created it?

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Manipulating environment to help animals. Aldo Leopold

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Who proposed the Ice Age in 1837

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Louis Agassiz

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Wilderness society

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Protect wilderness - roadless areas

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Domestic animals can graze in wilderness

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Wilderness act 1964

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The land ethic

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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

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Sierra club vs Morton. Rivers can be defended in court.

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Scenic nationalism

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Giving America recreation to compete with Europe via national parks

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Louis Agassiz

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proposed idea of ice age 1837

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what did the wilderness society do in 1935

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fire to protect wilderness (roadless wilderness) areas

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wilderness act 1964

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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
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aldo Leopold in The Land Ethic

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Inanimate objects should be protected in court

Regulation favors industry

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sierra club vs morton william douglas

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38
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Model of national parks?

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Yellowstone

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39
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Who favored park infrastructure

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Stephen Mater as first director of NPS

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40
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Name 4 Examples of Facade Nature

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stocking creeks
fedding bears
killing animals and predators
The yellowstone firefall (yosemite)

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41
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What did George Mendez Wright want?

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manage parks scientifically as an ecosystem standard

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1963 STARKAR Leopold Report

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Recreate national parks toward their original state and reintroduce predators

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Man always interacts with nature

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George Perkins Marsh

44
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Who put the borough of Forestry into the USDA?

45
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What did Richard Eli Want

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To bring conservation to agriculture

46
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ML Wilson wants

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Rural boys with self confidence

47
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Who said Power=Knowledge?

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Michael focoult

48
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When were wolves reintroduced?

49
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Lacey Act

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Prohibited interstate transportation of illegally killed wildlife

50
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What was a New Deal method to enact agricultural democracy?

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schools of philosophy

51
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TVA 1933

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Dam projects giving electric to much of rural Tennessee

52
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1933 CCC

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Young men make roads in National Parls

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Soil conservation Service 1935

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contour strip cropping

54
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Who is Alice Hamilton

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The first industrial toxin scientist

55
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Who is Jane Addams

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She helped inner city and immigrants with learning programs

56
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What is Riverside Illinois?

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The original MANOR LIKE SUBURBS

57
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What program lead to mass production of suburbs?

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Vets emergency housing program

58
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chemical warfare–>chemical farming example

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aynhydrous ammonia fertilizer

59
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What is sginificant about the 1956 inetrstate highway act?

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it was funded 90% by FED 10% by GM

60
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Hugh Moore 1954

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Invented Dixie cups and The idea of a population bomb

61
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Thomas Mathus

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1798 principle of population the world can only sustain so many people

62
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Margaret Sanger

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Champion of birth control in 1960

63
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What was so significant about the A BOMB

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People finally realized the massive effect or destruction people can have on the world.

64
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Fairfeild Osborne

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1948 our plundered planet said if we continue on this path we will end mankind

65
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Strontium 90

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Heavy carcinogenic metal coming from nucelar bombs

66
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Eugene Odum

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developed the idea of an all inclusive ecosystem

67
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Rachel Carson

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1952 Silent Spring started the modern environmental movement

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1976 NAT FOREST management act

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Stop clearcutting

Increase emphasis of outdoor recreation

69
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1972 roadless aerea review

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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

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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

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federal land policy and management act

the 1979 Sage Brush Rebellion

72
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How did Reagan view the environmental movement?

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He said the problems were overblown and saw conservationists as extremists

73
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Where did James Watt work and What 2 things did he say?

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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?

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Earth First REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIONIST
Tree sits
1981 Glen Canyon Dam demonstration
Tree spiking

75
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Northern Spotted Owl

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Threatened in 1990 and used Endangered Species act to protect forests

76
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Northern Spotted Owl and ecnonomy?

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JOBS VS ENVIRONMENT OWL

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What did the 1997 Kyoto policy ask?

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To reduce emissions USA did not sign

78
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Geronimo Trail Fire

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in 1991 showed that USFS shouldn’t surpress fires

79
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What is the Malpai Borderlands an exmaple of

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Government and private owning land but not managing well

80
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What did Jim Corbett and Drum Hadley argue about in what meeting?

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In the Malpai Bordelands meetins they argued GOV

  • let grasslands become shrublands
  • suburban development
81
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Lyn Jacobs

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1992 Ranching destroying the west

82
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Hwo to solve the tragedy of the commons…?

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save land through privitization or big gov?

83
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What movement did the sage brush rebellion inspire

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the wise use movement

84
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Who bought the largest peice of private land and what was it called?

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Nature conservancy bought gray ranch

85
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What idea did grey ranch inspire

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the biosphere reserve model

86
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What 3 areas are in the biosphere reserve model?

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ungrazed
limited grazing
range for livestock

87
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What is a conservation Easement?

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Private landowners giving property to third parties to conserve in order to receive tax breaks

88
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What are grassbanks manage by?

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A third party and make

  • prescribed burns
  • landowner educatiuon
  • conserve easement
  • watershed restoration
  • take care of invasive species
89
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What happen in 1981 to Purity Pricing

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Regulation was taken of milk prices

90
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What is a CAF and 3 things they do?

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CONFINED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS

  • 1 company does all processing
  • Reduces Labor
  • Give animals antibitotics
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RBGH and its significance

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Bovine growth hormone made by monsanto

- it is banned in many places and definitely ahrms animals, but not humans

92
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Organic Valley Co-ops 1988

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Members set standards for operations and SET PRICES not TAKE PRICES

93
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Horizon organics

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CAF style organic operation

94
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2010 organic grazing rule

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livestock must remain outside. this stopped large agro business to not be able to step into organics so easily

95
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community supported agriculture

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consumers invest in their local farmers to share risk

96
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Love Canal

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Starts the 1980 superfund law when a school is built over a superfund site

97
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What does the superfund act do?

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Gatehrs taxes from potential SUPERFUND sites to fund cleanup of others

98
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“Black Love Canal”

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Warren County, NC

99
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What is the precautionary principle?

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How do we limit harm instead of tolerate it?

100
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Majora Carter

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Turned South Bronx into an environmentally friendly area

101
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What did the national environmental policy act of 1970 require?

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Environmental impact statements must be submitted for all federally funded sites

102
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What is mastistis and what does it come from

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utter infection that routes from RBGH

103
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Which species was the surpreme court test case that provided interpretation of the Endangered Species Act?

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Snail Darter

104
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What book did Robert Bullard Author?

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Dumping in Dixie

105
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IPCC

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2007 report scientists agree that global warming is real and human induced

106
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suante Archeiuius

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Discovered the greenhouse affect and thought it would eb a good thing

107
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What banned the use of CFCs and what was the year

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The Montreal Protocol of 1987

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