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The Louisiana Purchase - What single event the U.S. History accounts for the most original 'public
domain' land that later became national parks and forests?
Aldo Leopold - Who started modern wildlife management with this book "Game Management"?
John Muir - Who was the founder of the Sierra Club and an advocate for wilderness?
Forests seemed limitless and appropriate for generating wealth - Which statement best describes the
reason(s) for the exploitation of the North American forests in the early years of European settlement?
Third Wave (1962 - 1980) - Rachel Carson published the book 'Silent Spring' to begin what period of
conservation?
Tragedy of the Commons - In class we heard about the example of a common range resource where
individuals acted to their own advantage by putting out more and more livestock, but the resource was
degraded in the process. Garritt Hardin's idea is called what?
1970-1980 - Most of the major federal environmental legislation, such as the Clean Water Act and the
Clean Air Act, was passed in which decade (s)?
Public Domain - The States Rights Doctrine claims that wildlife is...
State Government - What public administrative unit is responsible for establishing hunting regulations
for white - tailed deer?
Richard M. Nixon - Who is the president, who signed major environmental legislation that passed in a
bipartisan effort (e.g., the National Environmental Policy Act) during the third wave of conservation,
might be remembered as our "environmental president."