1: What is the term for:
*Natural Grasslands: Rangelands
* Managed Grasslands: Pastures
2: How do we sustain rangeland productivity?
By controlling the distrubution of livestock by restoring rangeland
3: When does overgrazing occur?
When animals graze for a long time and exceed the carrying capacity
4: What are ways that people are trying to preserve the grasslands on cattle ranches?
They are helping by pressuring the government to prevent ecological development
5: What were some of the causes of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930’s?
Poor farming overgrazing and farming arid lands
6: What are some of the reasons to establish National Parks and Reserves?
monumentalism and recreation
7: What is the Antiquities Act of 1906?
It says that the president can select a land to be a national monument
8: Who established the National Wildlife Refuges? When?
Theodore Roosevelt established it in 1903
9: What are wilderness areas?
areas limited to development
10: What is the wise-use movement?
Individuals and industries who oppose environmental protection
11: Which president has weakened wilderness protection? How?
President George W. Bush by shifting enforcement and policies of federal agencies
12: What is a land trust?
local regions who 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 exceptional biodviersity
14: What is habitat fragmentation?
A habitat cut into small pieces
15: What is a corridor?
A land that allows animals to go from an island to protected land
16: What are some of the ways that National Parks are threatened?
Logging, mining and poaching
17: What are some solutions to protecting our National Parks?
Add new protected parks limit the amount of destruction
18: How much of the Earth’s land is currently protected nature reserves?
12% of the land is protected
*Natural Grasslands: Rangelands
* Managed Grasslands: Pastures
2: How do we sustain rangeland productivity?
By controlling the distrubution of livestock by restoring rangeland
3: When does overgrazing occur?
When animals graze for a long time and exceed the carrying capacity
4: What are ways that people are trying to preserve the grasslands on cattle ranches?
They are helping by pressuring the government to prevent ecological development
5: What were some of the causes of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930’s?
Poor farming overgrazing and farming arid lands
6: What are some of the reasons to establish National Parks and Reserves?
monumentalism and recreation
7: What is the Antiquities Act of 1906?
It says that the president can select a land to be a national monument
8: Who established the National Wildlife Refuges? When?
Theodore Roosevelt established it in 1903
9: What are wilderness areas?
areas limited to development
10: What is the wise-use movement?
Individuals and industries who oppose environmental protection
11: Which president has weakened wilderness protection? How?
President George W. Bush by shifting enforcement and policies of federal agencies
12: What is a land trust?
local regions who 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 exceptional biodviersity
14: What is habitat fragmentation?
A habitat cut into small pieces
15: What is a corridor?
A land that allows animals to go from an island to protected land
16: What are some of the ways that National Parks are threatened?
Logging, mining and poaching
17: What are some solutions to protecting our National Parks?
Add new protected parks limit the amount of destruction
18: How much of the Earth’s land is currently protected nature reserves?
12% of the land is protected