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What happened in 1934?
Congress passed the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act to ensure collaboration.
What happened in 1836?
Waldo Emmerson published nature books about the values of wildlife.
What happened from 1804-1806?
Louis & Clark observed lots of wildlife.
What Island did TR establish?
Pelican Island
What was the Clean Water Act of 1972?
Designed to "Restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's water."
Whar happened in 1933?
Aldo Leopold became the first professor of wildlife management in the US.
What happened in 1872?
Ulysses S. Grant was President of the USA he established Yellowstone National Park which was the first National Park.
What happened in 1697?
New Jersey made it illegal to export deer skins if the deer was killed by Native American(s).
What is wildlife according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary?
"Living things and especially mammals, birds, and fishes that are neither human nor domesticated."
What are the four steps of the greenhouse effect?
1) Earth gets energy from the sun
2) The earth absorbs some of this energy and heats up
3) The Earth cools down by giving off infrared radiation
4) Greenhouse gases absorb some of the radiation
What happened in 1962?
Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural animals, domestic pets, and even humans.
What happened in 1646?
Portsmouth Rhode Island enacted the first closed season for deer hunting.
What is wildlife according to Duhaime's Legal Dictionary definition?
"Animals living in their natural habitat and not within the possession or control of humans."
What is wildlife management?
"The science and art of managing wildlife and its habitat, for the benefit of the soil, vegetation, and animals, including humans."
What happened in 1937?
Congress passes the Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (P-R Act)which levels a tax on certain hunting equipment to be used for wildlife restoration.
What happened from 1860-1870?
Transcontinental railroad expansion allowed for the shipment od more goods - bison - increased hunting.
What happened in 1900?
Congress passes the Lacey Game and Wild Birds Preservation and Disposition Act. This made it so that illegally taking wild game across state borders became a federal offense.
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
What did Henry David Thoreau do?
He wrote Walden, a book about his accounts during his experimental time of living at Walden Pond in Concord Massachusetts for two years and two months.
What happened in 1788?
New York outlawed the use of dogs in deer hunting.
What happened in 1833?
American Fur company shipped buffalo hides to England.
What are the soil horizons?
O - minerals and organic matter, organic matter dominates
A - minerals and organic matter, minerals dominate
E - (white/grey) - very little minerals
B - inorganic and organic material accumulation
C - unconsolidated parent material, little soil weathering
R - Hard Bedrock