Geo 030 Final Flashcards
Antiquities Act
1906 Presidents make geological wonders national monuments
Rexford Tugwell and the Resettlement Admin
Relocate farmers in Dust Bowl to conserve Ag
ML Wilson
USDA school of philosophy in build self-confident farmers.
1907 Fulton Amendment
Creation of National Parks is pushed from president to congress in reaction to midnight reserves
James Scott’s Wisdom
Favor reversibility
Negative effects of Scientific Forestry
Buildup, Erosion, Monocrop, Insect plagues, Fires, High quality trees. Easy counting
George Perkins Marsh
Spent time in Europe in the 1800s and saw need for UTILITARIAN CONSERVATION
Man and Nature
George Perkins Marsh
Who started Adirondack Park?
George Perkins Marsh
Gifford Pinchot
Wealthy Yale boy who studied scientific forestry in Europe
Who moved DOF to the USDA
Pinchot
Liebig’s Law
Growth controlled by scarcest resource
Cohokia
Modern Day St. Louis
Genisis 1
Humans dominate Earth
Genisis 2
Humans (Adam) tend the Earth
Genisis 3
Expulsion from Eden
Francis Bacon
Innocence via Religion
Dominion Via Science MASTER NATURE
Isaac Newton
Mechanical Earth
John Locke
Commodification of all things. You ownt he land you work
John Muir
The previous industrialist who becomes blind and founds Sierra Club
What park and controversy did Muir Deal with
Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite
Mary Hemenway
Audobon Society and Bird Hats
Lacey Act 1900 and what did start
Prohibited transportation of illegally killed wildlife. 1973 Endangered Species Act
Frank Waugh
1917 LARCH who saw recreation potential is parks.
Arthur Carhart
Hired to do Trapper’s Lake, CO and said to do NOTHING
Game management and who created it?
Manipulating environment to help animals. Aldo Leopold
Who proposed the Ice Age in 1837
Louis Agassiz
Wilderness society
Protect wilderness - roadless areas
Domestic animals can graze in wilderness
Wilderness act 1964
The land ethic
1949 Aldo Leopold the complexity of the land and how people, not the go Ernest should take care of it
William Douglas
Sierra club vs Morton. Rivers can be defended in court.
Scenic nationalism
Giving America recreation to compete with Europe via national parks
Louis Agassiz
proposed idea of ice age 1837
what did the wilderness society do in 1935
fire to protect wilderness (roadless wilderness) areas
wilderness act 1964
animals can graze in wilderness (domestic)
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
Inanimate objects should be protected in court
Regulation favors industry
sierra club vs morton william douglas
Model of national parks?
Yellowstone
Who favored park infrastructure
Stephen Mater as first director of NPS
Name 4 Examples of Facade Nature
stocking creeks
fedding bears
killing animals and predators
The yellowstone firefall (yosemite)
What did George Mendez Wright want?
manage parks scientifically as an ecosystem standard
1963 STARKAR Leopold Report
Recreate national parks toward their original state and reintroduce predators