Geography Midterm 1 Flashcards
Scenic nationalism
Giving America something to identify with as Europe has the coliseum, etc
What do national parks have the wilderness areas do not
Roads
Models as the first national park
Yellowstone
Stephen Mather
First director of NPS 1916-1929
Built park infrastructure to get as many people in as possible
Facade nature
Creating nature for tourism
Stocking creeks, killing predators, feeding bears, Yosemite firefall
George Mendez wright
First national park biologist
Manage parks as an ecosystem standard
1963 starker leap old report
Recreate national parks to their original state. Reintroduction of wolves
Aldo leopold
1886 worked to kill predators originally until he learned to think like a mountain
Frank Waugh
1917 landscape architect saw the recreational potential of forests
Arthur carhart
Decided the best thing to do with a national forest/park is NOTHING
Louis Agassiz
Proposed the ice age in 1837. The idea that man is only a small part if works history
Game management
Manipulating the environment to help animals. Aldo leopold
Wilderness society
1935 first to protect wilderness areas
Wilderness act
1964 domestic animals can graze in wilderness
John muir
The early industrialist left blind and then drawn to nature. Becomes chief advocate for Yosemite and founds the Sierra club
Hetch hetchy controversy
1906-1913 can you build a dam in a national park. We need an organization to oversee these parks
Mary hemenway
Blames consumers for buying bird hats, not hunters. She formed the Audubon society
Why were middle class woman for social reform?
Home makers of the human race
Lacy act
1900 prohibited transportation of illegally killed wildlife
Precursor to the 1973 endangered species act
Genesis 1
Humans dominate works
Genesis 2
Humans keep and tend the world
Genesis 3
Humans expelled from
Eden and are to regain the wilderness to recreate Eden
Francis bacon
Gain innocence via religion
Gain dominion via science
Isaac newton
Believed earth to be mechanical
John Locke
Commodification of all things
Capitalism
People have rights to property that they work
Liebigs law
Growth controlled by scarcest resource
Cohokia
The ancient st Louis
How were native Americans now so nature loving?
Jumping the bull
Extinction of large megafauna
Burning forests
Large cities
Why is the Pocahontas idea of natives bad?
Dehumanization of natives
Where did scientific forestry come from?
Europe’s need of wood in the 1700s
What is the doctrine of scientific forestry?
To get the most product
George Perkins marsh
1801-1882
George Perkins marsh
Lawyer congress Dartmouth
The global man who saw European need for resources and brought ideals to USA.
Author of man and nature
George perkins marsh
Who started the adirondack park and why?
George Perkins marsh in order to save the Hudson river.
UTILITARIAN CONSERVATION
Gifford Pinchot
Wealthy Yale
Studied scientific forestry in Europe
Wanted to treat forests as crops in the department of agriculture