Rangelands, Grasslands, and Parks
1: What is the term for:
* Natural Grasslands: A vegetation community that is likely to contain a number of different grassland associations or communities which, while floristcally distinct, share many common attributes
* Managed Grasslands: Creating national parks out of areas, protecting them from harm so they can florish and grow.
2: How do we sustain rangeland productivity?
By controlling number and distribution of livestock by restoring degraded rangeland.
3: When does overgrazing occur?
When too many animals graze for too long and exceed carrying capacity of a grassland area
4: What are ways that people are trying to preserve the grasslands on cattle ranches?
By paying ranchers conservation easments and pressuring the government to zone the land to prevent development of ecologically sensitive areas.
5: What were some of the causes of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930’s?
Over exploitation of resources caused great damage to the American West, and poor farming practices, overgrazing, & farming arid lands
6: What are some of the reasons to establish National Parks and Reserves?
monumentalism, recreation, protection of areas with utilitarian benefits and preservation of biodiversity.
7: What is the Antiquities Act of 1906?
Where the president can declare selected public lands as national monuments.
8: Who established the National Wildlife Refuges? When?
President Theodore Roosevelt established the National Wildlife Refuges in 1903.
9: What are wilderness areas?
Wilderness areas are areas off limits to development of any kind. It is open to the public for hiking, nature study, etc.
10: What is the wise-use movement?
A coalition of individuals and industries that oppose environmental protection
11: Which president has weakened wilderness protection? How?
President George W. Bush weakened the wilderness protection by shifting enforcement and policies of federal agencies.
12: What is a land trust?
Local or regional organizations that purchase land to protect it.
13: Define the following:
* Transboundary Park: An area of protected land overlapping national borders
* Peace Park: Trans boundary reserves that help ease tensions by acting as buffers between nations.
*Biosphere Reserves: Land with exceptional biodiversity.
14: What is habitat fragmentation?
Describes the emergence of discontinuities in an organisms preferred environment causing population fragmentation
15: What is a corridor?
Areas connecting two or more regions
16: What are some of the ways that National Parks are threatened?
By human activity such as logging, mining and wildlife poaching
17: What are some solutions to protecting our National Parks?
Some solutions to protecting National Parks are adding new parks next to threatened parks, survey wildlife in parks, limit number of visitors to crowded areas.
18: How much of the Earth’s land is currently protected nature reserves?
12% of earth's land area is protected nature reserves
* Natural Grasslands: A vegetation community that is likely to contain a number of different grassland associations or communities which, while floristcally distinct, share many common attributes
* Managed Grasslands: Creating national parks out of areas, protecting them from harm so they can florish and grow.
2: How do we sustain rangeland productivity?
By controlling number and distribution of livestock by restoring degraded rangeland.
3: When does overgrazing occur?
When too many animals graze for too long and exceed carrying capacity of a grassland area
4: What are ways that people are trying to preserve the grasslands on cattle ranches?
By paying ranchers conservation easments and pressuring the government to zone the land to prevent development of ecologically sensitive areas.
5: What were some of the causes of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930’s?
Over exploitation of resources caused great damage to the American West, and poor farming practices, overgrazing, & farming arid lands
6: What are some of the reasons to establish National Parks and Reserves?
monumentalism, recreation, protection of areas with utilitarian benefits and preservation of biodiversity.
7: What is the Antiquities Act of 1906?
Where the president can declare selected public lands as national monuments.
8: Who established the National Wildlife Refuges? When?
President Theodore Roosevelt established the National Wildlife Refuges in 1903.
9: What are wilderness areas?
Wilderness areas are areas off limits to development of any kind. It is open to the public for hiking, nature study, etc.
10: What is the wise-use movement?
A coalition of individuals and industries that oppose environmental protection
11: Which president has weakened wilderness protection? How?
President George W. Bush weakened the wilderness protection by shifting enforcement and policies of federal agencies.
12: What is a land trust?
Local or regional organizations that purchase land to protect it.
13: Define the following:
* Transboundary Park: An area of protected land overlapping national borders
* Peace Park: Trans boundary reserves that help ease tensions by acting as buffers between nations.
*Biosphere Reserves: Land with exceptional biodiversity.
14: What is habitat fragmentation?
Describes the emergence of discontinuities in an organisms preferred environment causing population fragmentation
15: What is a corridor?
Areas connecting two or more regions
16: What are some of the ways that National Parks are threatened?
By human activity such as logging, mining and wildlife poaching
17: What are some solutions to protecting our National Parks?
Some solutions to protecting National Parks are adding new parks next to threatened parks, survey wildlife in parks, limit number of visitors to crowded areas.
18: How much of the Earth’s land is currently protected nature reserves?
12% of earth's land area is protected nature reserves