Public Lands
The maximum amount that can be harvested, without compromising its future availability
What is Maximum Sustainable Yield?
Removing trees from a forest area
What is timber harvest?
This Act was designed to protect species from extinction.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
Encourages the development of of sustainable, healthy communities
What is smart growth?
What are food, shelter, and resources?
Created for scientific, educational, recreational use and beauty/unique landforms
What are national parks?
What is a prescribed burn?
This is abbreviated as NEPA
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
The creation of urbanized areas that spread into rural areas, removing a clear boundary between the two.
What is urban sprawl?
Dry, open grasslands used primarily for cattle grazing
What is a rangeland?
The cost or benefit of a good/service that is not included in the purchase price of that good/service.
What is externality?
The process of randomly removing one or a few trees form a forest.
What is selective cutting?
These outline the scope/purpose of a project, describe the environmental context, suggest alternative approaches to the project, and analyze the environmental impact of each alternative
What are Environmental Impact Statements?
The process of separating industries from residential neighborhoods
What is zoning?
The tendency of a shared resource to become depleted.
What is the tragedy of commons?
Protected sites that conserve special natural or cultural interests.
Has a goal of maintaining all species (both plants and animals)
What is ecologically sustainable forestry?
States how developer will address a project’s environmental impacts
Degradation of the built and social environments of city that accelerated migration to the suburbs
What is urban blight?
When increase in supply causes demand to grow
What is induced demand?
The percentage of US land that is publicly owned.
What is 42%?
This practice gives use to land that is too dry to farm.
What is cattle grazing?
This Act is substantive in nature and requires action be taken in the event that a project poses serious environmental impacts.
What is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)?
This government policy is an example of a positive feedback loop
What is the highway trust fund?
The approximate number of national parks in the world
What is 3400?