NR 575 Exam 2 (Final) Questions And Answers With
Complete Solutions | New Update 2025
Number of annual visits to state parks: - ANSWER ~791 million
(Compared to 331 million to NPS that is over 3 times the visits to NPS, with 16% of
the acreage of NPS)
First state park - ANSWER Big Basin Redwoods State Park 1902 (Yosemite
technically first, but ended up as National),
over 90% of original wiped out from exploitation (redwoods)
- very unique area because of this
Set aside because of continuous stand of ancient coast redwood trees
Exploitation of resources triggered the disease to protect lands
Ex: Anza borrego state park
One of the largest state parks in the US
Has picked it up more land recently
Because ranches are being bought as state land to connect desert land to even
ocean land
Borrego: big horn sheep
Anza stands for? The first
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park - ANSWER The first water reservoir for providing
water to SD from this watershed
,CA Prop AB 1918 Office of Sustainable Recreation - ANSWER Recreation is
extremely important to our economy in CA and nationally
We already have the state department....why do we need this?
Bill requires office to promote smart growth
Idea of the bill: offer the state to give some credibility to outdoor recreation
Tourism is important, we need access to parks, they want to build areas in "park
deserts" like food deserts"
Focus on disadvantaged communities
Federal Land Management Agencies - ANSWER Department of Interior (3)
-Bureau of Land Management = National Resource Lands
-National Park Service = National Parks, Monuments, Battlefields
-US Fish and Wildlife Service = National Wildlife Refuge
Department of Agriculture (1)
1. US Forest Service = National Forests
BLM - ANSWER 248 million surface acres of land in the US
60 million something acres that BLM owns with other individuals (split joint use)
1946 combined two former land agencies - the General Land Office 1812 and the
US Grazing Service 1934
* General lands office was all the federal lands that the gov picked up
When the homestead act passed, land would come out of the general lands office
and be given to the farmer
, Other general lands were sold for cheap to people bc the gov wanted people to
settle out in the land
You can control land best when you have settlements on it
Gov incentives helped provide control for the lands governed by federal gov
Native Americans started to get lands in reservations in the Western US
Have been traded to the advantage of the N Americans and not the Natives
1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act - establishes agency's multiple-use
mandate (it's the BLMs organic act)
*Consolidated more than 2,000 laws into FLPMA
By 2000, conservation was a more popular topic
the 26 million acre National Landscape Conservation System developed by Interior
under Clinton, not implemented until Obama 2009 as the 2009 Omnibus Public
Land Mgmt Act because Bush II didn't gaf
BLM had never had conservation in mind until this
has the most lands in our country
Mostly in nevada, Utah, New Mexico,
Arid, unfarmable, rocky, mountainous lands are normally BLM
In some cases, BLM wants to get rid of their lands if another agency wants them
BLMS are basically the leftover lands that no one wanted
But now that picture has changed a lot because now BLM want to keep control of
their lands for mineral/gas/coal/oil/uranium energy resources
Complete Solutions | New Update 2025
Number of annual visits to state parks: - ANSWER ~791 million
(Compared to 331 million to NPS that is over 3 times the visits to NPS, with 16% of
the acreage of NPS)
First state park - ANSWER Big Basin Redwoods State Park 1902 (Yosemite
technically first, but ended up as National),
over 90% of original wiped out from exploitation (redwoods)
- very unique area because of this
Set aside because of continuous stand of ancient coast redwood trees
Exploitation of resources triggered the disease to protect lands
Ex: Anza borrego state park
One of the largest state parks in the US
Has picked it up more land recently
Because ranches are being bought as state land to connect desert land to even
ocean land
Borrego: big horn sheep
Anza stands for? The first
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park - ANSWER The first water reservoir for providing
water to SD from this watershed
,CA Prop AB 1918 Office of Sustainable Recreation - ANSWER Recreation is
extremely important to our economy in CA and nationally
We already have the state department....why do we need this?
Bill requires office to promote smart growth
Idea of the bill: offer the state to give some credibility to outdoor recreation
Tourism is important, we need access to parks, they want to build areas in "park
deserts" like food deserts"
Focus on disadvantaged communities
Federal Land Management Agencies - ANSWER Department of Interior (3)
-Bureau of Land Management = National Resource Lands
-National Park Service = National Parks, Monuments, Battlefields
-US Fish and Wildlife Service = National Wildlife Refuge
Department of Agriculture (1)
1. US Forest Service = National Forests
BLM - ANSWER 248 million surface acres of land in the US
60 million something acres that BLM owns with other individuals (split joint use)
1946 combined two former land agencies - the General Land Office 1812 and the
US Grazing Service 1934
* General lands office was all the federal lands that the gov picked up
When the homestead act passed, land would come out of the general lands office
and be given to the farmer
, Other general lands were sold for cheap to people bc the gov wanted people to
settle out in the land
You can control land best when you have settlements on it
Gov incentives helped provide control for the lands governed by federal gov
Native Americans started to get lands in reservations in the Western US
Have been traded to the advantage of the N Americans and not the Natives
1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act - establishes agency's multiple-use
mandate (it's the BLMs organic act)
*Consolidated more than 2,000 laws into FLPMA
By 2000, conservation was a more popular topic
the 26 million acre National Landscape Conservation System developed by Interior
under Clinton, not implemented until Obama 2009 as the 2009 Omnibus Public
Land Mgmt Act because Bush II didn't gaf
BLM had never had conservation in mind until this
has the most lands in our country
Mostly in nevada, Utah, New Mexico,
Arid, unfarmable, rocky, mountainous lands are normally BLM
In some cases, BLM wants to get rid of their lands if another agency wants them
BLMS are basically the leftover lands that no one wanted
But now that picture has changed a lot because now BLM want to keep control of
their lands for mineral/gas/coal/oil/uranium energy resources
