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Renewable Resource - Capable of replenishing (via birth or geophysical process) on a TIME FRAME useful
to humans. Essentially Inexhaustible
Renewable Resource Examples - Solar, Wind, Water
Natural Resource - Any component of natural environment that species depend on for their welfare.
Natural Resource Examples - Soil, Water, Rangeland, wildlife, etc.
Anthropocentric View - Regards humans as being a central fact of the universe.
Carrying Capacity - An environment's ability to support a particular organism's population size in current
living conditions forever
Conservation - The rational use of the environment to provide the highest sustainable quality of life for
the greatest number of people and other organisms.
Nonrenewable Resources - Can't be replenished within a reasonable period of time by natural
processess
Exploitation - Max human gain with no care about the environment
Preservation - Protect, set aside, and preserve resources. Nature centered approach. John Muir founded
national parks with this idea
Utilitarian - Sustainable Yield - manage sustainable resources so they never exhaust. Gifford Pinchot and
Theodore Roosevelt.
, Sustainable/ecological approach - Think in terms of whole systems. Resources used to enhance their
potential. Concerned about all resources, even if people don't directly use them
Yellowstone - Made with Muir
John Muir - Preservation of forest land (national parks), 28 forest reserves, established Sierra Club.
Popularized values of wilderness. Preserved remnants. Ecocetric
Preservationist - Muir
Utilitarian - Pinchot
Aldo Leopold - "wildlife management". Marked trees but saw need for preservation. Helped make
primitive areas. MADE GILA WILDERNESS AREA. Stewardship values.
Ding Darling - Des Moines Register Wildlife Cartooonist
Colonial Period - Transformation from vast wilderness diversity to the first human impacts (farming).
Public Doman Myth - Unlimited resources in America
Thomas Jefferson's Intent - Promote Settlement and development
Checkerboard Ownership - The railroads got every other square mile
George Perkins Marsh - "Man and Nature" about how people changed the Earth
Jared Diamond - "Collapse" about how environmental changes effected societies over time
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Renewable Resource - Capable of replenishing (via birth or geophysical process) on a TIME FRAME useful
to humans. Essentially Inexhaustible
Renewable Resource Examples - Solar, Wind, Water
Natural Resource - Any component of natural environment that species depend on for their welfare.
Natural Resource Examples - Soil, Water, Rangeland, wildlife, etc.
Anthropocentric View - Regards humans as being a central fact of the universe.
Carrying Capacity - An environment's ability to support a particular organism's population size in current
living conditions forever
Conservation - The rational use of the environment to provide the highest sustainable quality of life for
the greatest number of people and other organisms.
Nonrenewable Resources - Can't be replenished within a reasonable period of time by natural
processess
Exploitation - Max human gain with no care about the environment
Preservation - Protect, set aside, and preserve resources. Nature centered approach. John Muir founded
national parks with this idea
Utilitarian - Sustainable Yield - manage sustainable resources so they never exhaust. Gifford Pinchot and
Theodore Roosevelt.
, Sustainable/ecological approach - Think in terms of whole systems. Resources used to enhance their
potential. Concerned about all resources, even if people don't directly use them
Yellowstone - Made with Muir
John Muir - Preservation of forest land (national parks), 28 forest reserves, established Sierra Club.
Popularized values of wilderness. Preserved remnants. Ecocetric
Preservationist - Muir
Utilitarian - Pinchot
Aldo Leopold - "wildlife management". Marked trees but saw need for preservation. Helped make
primitive areas. MADE GILA WILDERNESS AREA. Stewardship values.
Ding Darling - Des Moines Register Wildlife Cartooonist
Colonial Period - Transformation from vast wilderness diversity to the first human impacts (farming).
Public Doman Myth - Unlimited resources in America
Thomas Jefferson's Intent - Promote Settlement and development
Checkerboard Ownership - The railroads got every other square mile
George Perkins Marsh - "Man and Nature" about how people changed the Earth
Jared Diamond - "Collapse" about how environmental changes effected societies over time
