ESRM 200 Study Questions Exam With
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What type of nut did the young boys collect in Robin Kimmerer's chapter The Council of the
________ from her book Braiding Sweetgrass? - ANSWER Pecans
Robin Kimmerer says she "was raised by strawberries". What does she mean by this? -
ANSWER She grew up in close proximity to wild strawberry fields.
The strawberries reared her and taught her life lessons.
T/F: According to Robin Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass, from her people's perspective if
something is purchased it cannot be viewed as a gift. - ANSWER True
In her chapter Defeating Windigo, what does Robin Kimmerer mean by the term Windigo? -
ANSWER A destructive evil force or power.
In the video interview with Robin Kimmerer, Kimmerer said that publishing peer-reviewed
scientific articles about mosses felt ________ to her. - ANSWER Dishonest
T/F: I mentioned a study published in the journal Science, conducted by Roger Ulrich, where
he found that patients after gall-bladder surgery needed more pain medication and healed
slower if they were in a hospital room that had a view of nature, as compared to a view of a
brick - ANSWER False
, T/F: When Robin Kimmerer writes of "The Counsel of Walnuts" she makes this analogy: that
just as the walnut tree grows strongest alone in the field, so do her native people now need to
learn (given modern times) that they can grow strongest though embracing individual rights
to land and to property. - ANSWER False
In Smith's article "Counting the Dead," he argues that for the entire United States from 1492
to the present, the total number of Indigenous deaths can be estimated to be around. -
ANSWER 13 million dead
T/F: In Smith's article "Counting the Dead," he argues that based on actual numbers it is a
mistake to call the loss of Indigenous lives a "Holocaust." - ANSWER False
T/F: In Gifford Pinchot's principles of conservation, it would be fair to say that he is for
development. - ANSWER True
T/F: Back in the early 1900's, when Pinchot wrote his principles of conservation, he basically
foresaw and described the problem we currently have with wildfires today. In other words, he
was arguing to let the natural forest fires burn themselves out. - ANSWER False (he wanted
wildfire prevention)
T/F: According to Rosenbaum, in his chapter 635 Million Acres of Politics, the public domain
has been divided by Congress into different units committed to different uses and
administered by different executive agencies, including: National Wilderness Preservation
System, National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, National Forests, and
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What type of nut did the young boys collect in Robin Kimmerer's chapter The Council of the
________ from her book Braiding Sweetgrass? - ANSWER Pecans
Robin Kimmerer says she "was raised by strawberries". What does she mean by this? -
ANSWER She grew up in close proximity to wild strawberry fields.
The strawberries reared her and taught her life lessons.
T/F: According to Robin Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass, from her people's perspective if
something is purchased it cannot be viewed as a gift. - ANSWER True
In her chapter Defeating Windigo, what does Robin Kimmerer mean by the term Windigo? -
ANSWER A destructive evil force or power.
In the video interview with Robin Kimmerer, Kimmerer said that publishing peer-reviewed
scientific articles about mosses felt ________ to her. - ANSWER Dishonest
T/F: I mentioned a study published in the journal Science, conducted by Roger Ulrich, where
he found that patients after gall-bladder surgery needed more pain medication and healed
slower if they were in a hospital room that had a view of nature, as compared to a view of a
brick - ANSWER False
, T/F: When Robin Kimmerer writes of "The Counsel of Walnuts" she makes this analogy: that
just as the walnut tree grows strongest alone in the field, so do her native people now need to
learn (given modern times) that they can grow strongest though embracing individual rights
to land and to property. - ANSWER False
In Smith's article "Counting the Dead," he argues that for the entire United States from 1492
to the present, the total number of Indigenous deaths can be estimated to be around. -
ANSWER 13 million dead
T/F: In Smith's article "Counting the Dead," he argues that based on actual numbers it is a
mistake to call the loss of Indigenous lives a "Holocaust." - ANSWER False
T/F: In Gifford Pinchot's principles of conservation, it would be fair to say that he is for
development. - ANSWER True
T/F: Back in the early 1900's, when Pinchot wrote his principles of conservation, he basically
foresaw and described the problem we currently have with wildfires today. In other words, he
was arguing to let the natural forest fires burn themselves out. - ANSWER False (he wanted
wildfire prevention)
T/F: According to Rosenbaum, in his chapter 635 Million Acres of Politics, the public domain
has been divided by Congress into different units committed to different uses and
administered by different executive agencies, including: National Wilderness Preservation
System, National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, National Forests, and
