Geography Midterm 1

Question 0

Scenic nationalism

Answer 0

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

Question 1

What do national parks have the wilderness areas do not

Answer 1

Roads

Question 2

Models as the first national park

Answer 2

Yellowstone

Question 3

Stephen Mather

Answer 3

First director of NPS 1916-1929

Built park infrastructure to get as many people in as possible

Question 4

Facade nature

Answer 4

Creating nature for tourism

Stocking creeks, killing predators, feeding bears, Yosemite firefall

Question 5

George Mendez wright

Answer 5

First national park biologist

Manage parks as an ecosystem standard

Question 6

1963 starker leap old report

Answer 6

Recreate national parks to their original state. Reintroduction of wolves

Question 7

Aldo leopold

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Frank Waugh

Answer 8

1917 landscape architect saw the recreational potential of forests

Question 9

Arthur carhart

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Louis Agassiz

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Game management

Answer 11

Manipulating the environment to help animals. Aldo leopold

Question 12

Wilderness society

Answer 12

1935 first to protect wilderness areas

Question 13

Wilderness act

Answer 13

1964 domestic animals can graze in wilderness

Question 14

John muir

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Hetch hetchy controversy

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Mary hemenway

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Why were middle class woman for social reform?

Answer 17

Home makers of the human race

Question 18

Lacy act

Answer 18

1900 prohibited transportation of illegally killed wildlife

Precursor to the 1973 endangered species act

Question 19

Genesis 1

Answer 19

Humans dominate works

Question 20

Genesis 2

Answer 20

Humans keep and tend the world

Question 21

Genesis 3

Answer 21

Humans expelled from

Eden and are to regain the wilderness to recreate Eden

Question 22

Francis bacon

Answer 22

Gain innocence via religion

Gain dominion via science

Question 23

Isaac newton

Answer 23

Believed earth to be mechanical

Question 24

John Locke

Answer 24

Commodification of all things
Capitalism
People have rights to property that they work

Question 25

Liebigs law

Answer 25

Growth controlled by scarcest resource

Question 26

Cohokia

Answer 26

The ancient st Louis

Question 27

How were native Americans now so nature loving?

Answer 27

Jumping the bull
Extinction of large megafauna
Burning forests
Large cities

Question 28

Why is the Pocahontas idea of natives bad?

Answer 28

Dehumanization of natives

Question 29

Where did scientific forestry come from?

Answer 29

Europe’s need of wood in the 1700s

Question 30

What is the doctrine of scientific forestry?

Answer 30

To get the most product

Question 31

George Perkins marsh

Answer 31

1801-1882

Question 32

George Perkins marsh

Answer 32

Lawyer congress Dartmouth

The global man who saw European need for resources and brought ideals to USA.

Question 33

Author of man and nature

Answer 33

George perkins marsh

Question 34

Who started the adirondack park and why?

Answer 34

George Perkins marsh in order to save the Hudson river.

UTILITARIAN CONSERVATION

Question 35

Gifford Pinchot

Answer 35

Wealthy Yale
Studied scientific forestry in Europe
Wanted to treat forests as crops in the department of agriculture