WILD 2050 Final Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
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What did early Americans need to participate in hunting? - answerTime, resources, and money
What were the earliest forms of hunting? - answerFalconry, and hunting with massive hound
packs with the finest made English guns
Who were the New Ri...
WILD 2050 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
What did early Americans need to participate in hunting? - answer✔Time, resources, and money
What were the earliest forms of hunting? - answer✔Falconry, and hunting with massive hound
packs with the finest made English guns
Who were the New Rich? - answer✔a new class of people who had more time and money to
participate in hunting
How many ducks could a punt gun kill in one shot? - answer✔up to 100
Who were toughs? - answer✔Privatized game wardens
What was the first known sportsmen club? - answer✔Carol's Island Club
What two methods of waterfowl hunting were eliminated in the 1940s? - answer✔Sinkbox boat
and live decoys
What did the New York Sportsmen Club try to stop? - answer✔Sale of game to markets; Spring
Shooting of game birds; Target lax game laws
Who did the New York Sportsmen sue? - answer✔poachers, dealers, and hotel proprietors
What major event delayed the conservation efforts in the 1800s? - answer✔The Civil War
What state was the first to employ full-time game wardens? - answer✔Maine
What was the first step the federal government did to help the conservation effort? -
answer✔Division of economic ornithology, and mammalogy,
Who was the first head of the Division of economic ornithology, and mammalogy? - answer✔C
Hart Merriam
What was the goal of the Division of economic Ornithology and Mammalogy? -
answer✔Promote investigations of the food, habitats, distribution, and migrations of North
American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry
Game dwindled due to what? - answer✔Market hunting
Who was the first to suggest that Yellowstone be set aside and held in trust for the benefit of all
people? - answer✔Cornelius Hedges
What bill set aside Yellowstone as a pleasuring ground for the people? - answer✔The Organic
Bill
What was the original issue with Yellowstone, and making it a national landmark? - answer✔It
was 1-2 weeks away on horseback from the nearest railroad stop
What problems did Yellowstone superintendents have enforcing the park? - answer✔They
couldn't punish violators, they could only take their equipment
What is a Rider? - answer✔Addition to a bill that has no connection to the actual problem, used
as a loophole to sneak laws into the back door
Who founded the Boone and Crockett Club? - answer✔Theodore Roosevelt
Why did Roosevelt first step away from his political career? - answer✔His wife and mother died
on the same day
Why did Roosevelt return back to politics? - answer✔A blizzard destroyed his Cattle herd in
North Dakota
How did Dr. George "Bird" Grinnell spread the word about conservation? - answer✔He was a
Zoologist and an editor for Field and Stream Magazine
Who was Ed Howell? - answer✔Famous poacher in Yellowstone; he poached so many animals
that he considered Yellowstone his own personal hunting preserve
Who was John Lacey, and what was the Lacey Bill? - answer✔He was a congressman and
member of Boone and Crockett; Bill added funding and Marshalls to Yellowstone
Who was the earliest advocate for the Yosemite? - answer✔John Muir
What is Mariposa Grove? - answer✔Home of the Sequoia tree and and Wawona tree
Why was the Sierra Club founded? - answer✔to preserve areas inside the state of California;
focused on more aesthetic areas in the state
What was the gilded age? - answer✔time when railroads were growing, and Americans became
wealthier;
How many birds were killed per year due to the plume industry? - answer✔5 million
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