with verified answers
What is Natural Resources Management? Ans✔✔-The analysis, planing, direct
manipulation and/or preservation and restoration of critical elements of the
natural and modified world
What are some examples of natural resources? Ans✔✔-Soil, water, air
vegetation, wildlife, focusing on sustaining ecological communities and quality of
life for present and future generations
Conservation Ans✔✔-The wise use of the Earth's resources by humanity
Conservation original meaning Ans✔✔-Referred to as the management, usually
for monetary gain, of valuable natural resources like timber, wildlife, soil,
pastureland, and minerals as well as the preservation of forests, parks, wilderness
and watershed areas.
Commission of Fish and Fisheries Ans✔✔-Conservation became part of the US
government policy in 1871 when what was established?
What did the entity of Commission of Fish and Fisheries later became apart of?
Ans✔✔-The commission was reorganized as the US Bureau of Fisheries in 1903
and became part of the US Fish and Wildlife service in 1940.
What was the nickname given to Aldo Leopold? Ans✔✔-Father of wildlife
management
,What did Aldo Leopold have to say about conservation? Ans✔✔-- Conservation is
a state of harmony between [people] and the land
- A healthy land has the "capacity for self-renewal"
- Conservation is "our efforts to preserve and enhance this capacity."
What was the first wildlife management textbook written by Aldo Leopold?
Ans✔✔-Sand County Almanac
What are reasons we discussed that conservation of natural resources is
becoming increasingly urgent? Ans✔✔-- Rapid human population growth
- Excessive resources consumption and depletion
- Local, regional, and global pollution
Optimists' view of Populations & Resource Use Ans✔✔-- If cheap enough energy
is available all things can be accomplished through advances in technology:
-pollution can be controlled
-adequate food can be grown to sustain expanding populations
-clothing and shelter can be provided to the needy
Pessimists' view of Populations & Resource Use Ans✔✔-We are too late,
technology can solve many problems, but it cannot keep up with the exponential
growth of populations and demands on resources
Six key ecological principles of sustainability put forth by Daniel Chiras Ans✔✔--
Conservation
- Recycling
, - Renewable Resource Use
- Restoration
- Population Control & Management
- Adaptability
How will the ecological principles help enhance sustainability of natural
resources? Ans✔✔-These principles may help steer humanity on a sustainable
course. T
Key components of what conservation means today Ans✔✔-- Conserving the
Earth itself by protecting and attempting to enhance its capacity for self renewal
- Emphasizes protection of entire ecological regions (biosphere reserves)
- Reconciling human use and conservation beyond boundaries of parks and
wilderness areas is critical
What are some specific pieces of legislation in the US that support conservation?
Ans✔✔-- Natural Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Clean Water Act
- Clean Air Act
- Endangered Species Act
- Marine Mammal Protection Act
- Migratory Bird Treaty Act
What do the US legislation in support of Modern Conservation attempt to
prevent? Ans✔✔-- Pollution
- Habitat Destruction