AGN 143 Question and answers rated A+ 2024/2025 AGN 143
Before 1860's (civil war) where was exploitation occurring? - correct answer In the East
After the civil war, where did exploitation take place? - correct answer West. Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado
Homestead Act - correct answer 1...
AGN 143
Before 1860's (civil war) where was exploitation occurring? - correct answer
✔In the East
After the civil war, where did exploitation take place? - correct answer
✔West. Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado
Homestead Act - correct answer ✔1862
Most US forest land was lost before what year? - correct answer ✔1910
Major change in forest management and use year... - correct answer ✔Late
1800 early 1900
How did the changes in perception start? - correct answer ✔Literature
George Perkins Marsh - correct answer ✔Notable writer in the 1800's
What did George Perkins write?
What was it about? - correct answer ✔Man and Nature
First book to document the effects of human action on the environment
What was one of the influencing factors behind the creation of US Forest
Service? - correct answer ✔Man and Nature
Department of the Interior - correct answer ✔Primary focus on Indian Affairs
, Forest Reserve Act of 1891 - correct answer ✔Presidents set aside public
land into forest preserves
Theodore R - correct answer ✔230 million acres, knew something had to be
done
Forest preserves became ________ in 1907 due to the new law - correct
answer ✔National Forests
Who was the first chief of the US Forest Service? - correct answer ✔Gifford
Pinchot
Why did Gifford leave? - correct answer ✔William Taft became president and
released him
Preservation - correct answer ✔John Muir- leave alone. DOI
Conservation - correct answer ✔Use of a resource for maximum benefit in
the long term - sustainability
Hetch Hetchy debate - correct answer ✔Dam provides water to San Fran in
1908
7 year debate between congress and John Muir(Sierra Club)
Forest Ecology - correct answer ✔Study of the interrelated patterns,
processes, flora, fauna, and ecosystems
Microclimate - correct answer ✔Localized, vary greatly in temp
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