Unit+7+Land+Management


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Laws:
Federal Aid Highway Act Fish & Wildlife Act Forest Reserve Act Land & Water Conservation Act National Park Service Act National Trails Act

Notes:
|| =Unit 7: Land Management=

Readings:
Chapter 12 Chapter 13

Goals: Forestry & Rangelands

 * Identify the principles, goals, and approaches of resource management
 * ecosystem-based management, adaptive management
 * Explain the concept of Maximum Sustainable Yield
 * Summarize the ecological roles and economic contributions of forest
 * Outline the history and scale of forest loss
 * Explain the fundamentals of forest management and describe the major methods of harvesting timber
 * Discuss the debate surrounding forestry and fire policy
 * Analyze the scale and impacts of agricultural land use

Goals: Protected Lands

 * Identify major federal land management agencies and the lands they manage
 * Recognize types of parks and reserves, and evaluate issues involved in their design.
 * Related the Theory of Island Biogeography to the design of protected lands

Goals: Urbanization & SMART Growth

 * Describe the scale of urbanization
 * Assess urban and suburban sprawl
 * Outline city and regional planning and land use strategies
 * Evaluate transportation options
 * Discuss the history of transportation in the US and its environmental impacts
 * Describe the roles of urban parks
 * Analyze environmental impacts and advantages of urban centers
 * Describe and evaluate the tenants of SMART growth

Skills
USGS' Earth Shots
 * Review, understand, and apply the meaning of verbs as they appear in College Board FRQs ||
 * ==Extras==

Forestry:
Battle for Boreno's Forests Forest for the Trees

Public Lands:
Views of the National Parks National Park Service World Heritage Sites National Wildlife Refuges GORP: Find a Park UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Urbanization:
Urbanization Affects Ecological Services New York's Park in the Sky SMART Growth Interactive Examples of SMART growth Levittown: The First American Suburb Farming on top of Warehouse Blotting not Squatting

Transportation
Take Us There: Public Transportation For the Love of Highways Doomed Freeways? NYC Traffic Sign Haikus Industrialization Drives Transportation & Urbanization || ==Assignments== post them here ||