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Forestry
Ans: Science and art of creating and managing forests and associated resources to meet
desired goals and needs of society.
- Can be natural or plantations.
- Manage for recreational use, animal habitats, production of timber, etc.
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Ans: The study of fresh water, marine, and estuarine systems and species in order to foster
long term sustainable use of aquatic resources.
- Same management as forestry but for aquatics.
Wildlife and Ecology
Ans: The study of the relationship between wildlife and their environment to meet
conservation and management goals.
- Same management as forestry.
Resource
Ans: A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a
person or organization in order to function effectively.
- Countries collective means of supporting itself.
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Natural Resource
Ans: Materials or substances that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
- Anything provided by nature.
- Overall well being of a country determined by abundance and condition.
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable
Ans: - Renewable = replaced by natural processes and if it replenishes with some time.
- Ex: Timber, Sunlight, Wildlife, etc.
- Nonrenewable = cannot be produced, grown, generated, or used on a scale which can
sustain its consumption rate.
- Ex: Fossil fuels, Types of Nuclear Power.
- Renewability depends on the rate it is used and can be generated.
Sustainability
Ans: Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.
Conservation
Ans: The wise use of the Earth's resources by humanity.
- Resources are used in a conservative approach.
- Protecting the Earth's capacity for self-renewal.
- Ex: Commercial forests can be managed in this manner.
Preservation
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Ans: Non-use or limited use of resources, such that their state is maintained, restored, or
enhanced through management.
- Leaves resources for future generations for ecological functions.
- Ex: Wilderness is not significantly altered by humans.
Consumptive use
Ans: Extracting items from the land.
- Ex: hunting or fishing.
Non-consumptive use
Ans: Without extraction of any resources.
- Ex: Bird watching.
Aldo Leopold
Ans: wrote A Sand County Almanac published a year after his death in 1948; promoted a
"Land Ethic" in which humans are ethically responsible for serving as the protectors of nature.
- Father of Wildlife Management.
- Founded science of game management.
Fish
Ans: Gill bearing aquatic vertebrate that lacks limbs.
Fishery
Ans: Unit engaged in raising and or harvesting of fish.
- defined by location, species, area of water, method of fishing, and purpose of activity.
- Can be many different organisms.
- Fisher components = Biota, Habitat, and Human user.