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Which of the following is NOT one of the options agencies can use to comply with
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NEPA's requirements for environmental impact assessment? - Correct answer
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✔Rulemaking


NEPA requires that federal agencies include in their impact assessments all of the
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following except - Correct answer ✔a cost-benefit analysis justifying significant
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environmental impacts ||||||




what role does the Council of Environmental Quality play in NEPA? - Correct
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answer ✔provides guidance and regulation to agencies regarding the
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implementation of NEPA's requirements |||||| |||||| ||||||




This NEPA document summarizes the selection of the preferred alternative: -
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Correct answer ✔record of decision |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




this NEPA document is used by federal agencies as a "screening" process to
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determine if there are significant impacts from a proposed project or action -
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Correct answer ✔environmental assessment |||||| |||||| ||||||




NEPA focuses on the outcomes of environmental decisions rather than on the
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process of reaching those decisions (T/F) - Correct answer ✔false
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,Who isn't part of the traditional iron triangle? - Correct answer ✔the president
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why is it important to have interest groups involved in natural resource
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management? - Correct answer ✔they provide a unified voice for dispersed |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




constituents


what kind of project would trigger NEPA analysis? - Correct answer ✔any
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proposed project involving the federal government that potentially affects the
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environment


what are the twin aims of NEPA? - Correct answer ✔ensuring agencies take a hard
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look at environmental impacts, informing and involving the public on proposed
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agency actions ||||||




under the Organic act of 1897, what were the primary uses of National Forests? -
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Correct answer ✔timber harvest and watershed protection
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which act requires the Forest Service to provide for a diversity of plant and animal
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communities? - Correct answer ✔the National Forest Management Act |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




which act requires the BLM to prevent undue degradation? - Correct answer
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✔The Federal Land Policy and Management Act
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Forest plans are meant to: - Correct answer ✔zone national forests for different
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uses and set management standards
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, before the Taylor Grazing Act, how were rights to the range on public lands
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determined? - Correct answer ✔there was no formal process |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




The Federal Land Policy and Management Act emphasized all of the following
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except: - Correct answer ✔a process to permanently purchase grazing rights
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The Taylor Grazing act did all of the following except: - Correct answer ✔establish
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multiple use ||||||




which of the following is NOT one of the typical components of a land and
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resource management plan? - Correct answer ✔development of allotment |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




management plans ||||||




all of the following trends led up to the Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act (MUSYA),
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Renewable Resources Planning Act, and National Forest Management act EXCEPT: |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




- Correct answer ✔conflicts started by forest rangers in local communities
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what are the 2 major policies to affect the creation of national forests and their
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management by the US Forest Service? - Correct answer ✔The 1891 Forest |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Reserve Act and the National Forest Management act of 1976 |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




The Hardrock Mining Law: - Correct answer ✔governs the mining of gold, silver,
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lead, gemstones, and other hard minerals, Lord of Yesterday, pertains to mining
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on all public lands, and "first in time first in right" idea
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Prior Appropriation relies on all of the following EXCEPT - Correct answer ✔land
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