1: What is the term for:
*Natural Grasslands: Rangelands
* Managed Grasslands: Pastures
2: How do we sustain rangeland productivity? We can sustain rangeland productivity by controlling the number and distribution of livestock and b restoring degraded lands.
3: When does overgrazing occur? Overgrazing occurs too many land animals graze for too long and extending the carrying capacity.
4: What are ways that people are trying to preserve the grasslands on cattle ranches? By paying ranchers to conserve and pressuring the government to zone the lands to prevent development of ecological sensitive areas.
5: What were some of the causes of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930’s? Some causes of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930's was poor farming practices, overgrazing, and farming arid areas.
6: What are some of the reasons to establish National Parks and Reserves? Reasons to establish National Parks and Reserves is monumentalism: the idea of preserving areas with enormous, beautiful features such as the Grand Canyon.
7: What is the Antiquities Act of 1906? Is the act when the president declared selected public lands as national monuments.
8: Who established the National Wildlife Refuges? When? President Theodore Roosevelt established the National Wildfire Refuges in 1903.
9: What are wilderness areas? Wilderness areas are areas that are off-limits to development of any kind.
10: What is the wise-use movement? The wise-use movement was a coalition of individuals and industries that oppose environmental protection.
11: Which president has weakened wilderness protection? How? President George W. Bush had weakened wilderness protection. By getting federal agencies and police enforcement to help out.
12: What is a land trust? Land trust is when local or regional organizations purchase land to protect it.
13: Define the following:
* Transboundary Park- An area of protected land overlapping national borders.
* Peace Park- Transboundary reserves that help ease tensions by acting as buffers between nations.
*Biosphere Reserves- Land with expectional biodiversity
14: What is habitat fragmentation? Habitat fragmentation is when contiguous habitats that is being chopped down into small pieces.
15: What is a corridor? Corridor are protected land that allows animals to travel between islands of protected habitats.
16: What are some of the ways that National Parks are threatened? Some ways the National Park is threatened because some people invade the park for wood, crop and other natural resources. Loggers and poachers deplete natural resources.
17: What are some solutions to protecting our National Parks?
-Adding new parkland near threatened areas.
-Buying private lands inside the park.
-Limit the number of visitors to crowded park areas.
-Increasing the number of park rangers.
18: How much of the Earth’s land is currently protected nature reserves? Only 12% of the Earth's land is currently protected nature reserves.
*Natural Grasslands: Rangelands
* Managed Grasslands: Pastures
2: How do we sustain rangeland productivity? We can sustain rangeland productivity by controlling the number and distribution of livestock and b restoring degraded lands.
3: When does overgrazing occur? Overgrazing occurs too many land animals graze for too long and extending the carrying capacity.
4: What are ways that people are trying to preserve the grasslands on cattle ranches? By paying ranchers to conserve and pressuring the government to zone the lands to prevent development of ecological sensitive areas.
5: What were some of the causes of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930’s? Some causes of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930's was poor farming practices, overgrazing, and farming arid areas.
6: What are some of the reasons to establish National Parks and Reserves? Reasons to establish National Parks and Reserves is monumentalism: the idea of preserving areas with enormous, beautiful features such as the Grand Canyon.
7: What is the Antiquities Act of 1906? Is the act when the president declared selected public lands as national monuments.
8: Who established the National Wildlife Refuges? When? President Theodore Roosevelt established the National Wildfire Refuges in 1903.
9: What are wilderness areas? Wilderness areas are areas that are off-limits to development of any kind.
10: What is the wise-use movement? The wise-use movement was a coalition of individuals and industries that oppose environmental protection.
11: Which president has weakened wilderness protection? How? President George W. Bush had weakened wilderness protection. By getting federal agencies and police enforcement to help out.
12: What is a land trust? Land trust is when local or regional organizations purchase land to protect it.
13: Define the following:
* Transboundary Park- An area of protected land overlapping national borders.
* Peace Park- Transboundary reserves that help ease tensions by acting as buffers between nations.
*Biosphere Reserves- Land with expectional biodiversity
14: What is habitat fragmentation? Habitat fragmentation is when contiguous habitats that is being chopped down into small pieces.
15: What is a corridor? Corridor are protected land that allows animals to travel between islands of protected habitats.
16: What are some of the ways that National Parks are threatened? Some ways the National Park is threatened because some people invade the park for wood, crop and other natural resources. Loggers and poachers deplete natural resources.
17: What are some solutions to protecting our National Parks?
-Adding new parkland near threatened areas.
-Buying private lands inside the park.
-Limit the number of visitors to crowded park areas.
-Increasing the number of park rangers.
18: How much of the Earth’s land is currently protected nature reserves? Only 12% of the Earth's land is currently protected nature reserves.