National Parks
This U.S. state has the most National Parks.
What is California?
The largest National Forest can be found in this state.
What is Alaska?
What are Wilderness Areas?
These protected lands are designated to remain “untrammeled by man,” where natural processes are allowed to occur with little human influence.
Colorado manages a type of land called S.W.A. What does this stand for?
State Wildlife Area. There are more than 300 state wildlife areas.
Name two different types of locally managed land in Colorado. (Smaller than state)
County, City
Name 5 different National Parks.
Acadia National Park, Maine
Arches National Park, Utah
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Biscayne National Park, Florida
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
Channel Islands National Park, California
Congaree National Park, South Carolina
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
Death Valley National Park, California and Nevada
Denali National Park, Alaska
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
Everglades National Park, Florida
Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska
Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri and Illinois
Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Glacier National Park, Montana
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Great Basin National Park, Nevada
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee
Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana
Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Katmai National Park, Alaska
Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
Kings Canyon National Park, California
Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska
Lake Clark National Park, Alaska
Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
National Park of American Samoa, American Samoa
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia
North Cascades National Park, Washington
Olympic National Park, Washington
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Pinnacles National Park, California
Redwood National Park, California
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Saguaro National Park, Arizona
Sequoia National Park, California
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
Virgin Islands National Park, Virgin Islands
Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska
Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming
Yosemite National Park, California
Zion National Park, Utah
This land has a focus on "Multiple Uses". Name 3 types of uses allowed in National Forests.
What is recreation, grazing, and timber harvesting?
This act established the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1964.
What is the Wilderness Act?
Which two ways are Colorado State Parks most commonly funded?
What are entrance fees & state taxes?
Name 3 types of Federally managed land that is not BLM, NPS, USFS, or wilderness.
National Conservation Areas, National Grasslands, National Monuments, National Recreation Areas, National Wildlife Refuges
Name two major challenges parks face with increasingly high visitation.
What is overcrowding, wildlife stress, erosion, trail/vegetation damage, etc.?
BLM lands generate revenue mainly from which type of industry?
What is oil, gas, coal, wind, or solar?
How many wilderness areas does Colorado have? (need to be within a range of 5)
42
This was the first established Colorado State Park.
What is Cherry Creek State Park (in 1959)?
This Colorado county has about 80% of its land mass as federal public land (national forest, BLM, wilderness)
What is Summit County?
This is the largest national park in the continental U.S
What is Death Valley National Park?
This federal department oversees the BLM.
What is the Department of the Interior?
This state contains the most designated wilderness areas.
What is California?
This is the total number of State Parks in Colorado.
What is 42?
This Colorado city manages one of the largest municipal open space systems in the nation.
What is Boulder, Colorado?
The national park service was established in this year.
What is 1916?
Under the Organic Act
The BLM was formally established in this year.
What is 1946?
What percentage of Alaska is Defined Wilderness. (need to be within 10%)
What is 57%?
By more 50,000 acres, this is the largest State Park in Colorado
What is State Forest State Park (70,838 acres)?
How much of Colorado is any type of public land? (needs to be within 10%)
What is 43.3%?