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ESA
100
Procedural legislation created in 1969 which seeks to analyze potential environmental impacts
What is the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA)?
100
In this process you improve threatened or endangered animals habitat in order to receive an incidental take permit from the USFWS that protects you from litigation if the species gets harmed during your project.
What is HCP? Habitat conservation plan.
100
Problems that occur due to scientific uncertainty and value conflict
What are wicked problems?
100
Often called the “Magna Carta” of environmental laws
What is NEPA?
100
They are said to be concepts or beliefs about desirable behaviors or states that transcend specific situation, guide & evaluate behaviors & are ordered by relative importance.!
What are values
200
An agency first identifies a need for action and develops a proposal and then secondly, evaluates if environmental effects are likely to be significant.
What are the first two steps of the NEPA process?
200
Every 15 years
How often does the Forest Service have to revise their Land Management Plan?
200
Parameter, Model, Systemic, and Stochastic.
What are types of uncertainty in Science?
200
Created in 1960 that shifted philosophy and focused on all possible uses and benefits of the land for human use?
What is MUSYA?
200
The bird that has declined by 90% due to oil and gas drilling, wildfires, and livestock grazing
What is the Sage Grouse?
300
Was passed by Congress in 1973 for the purpose of protecting and recovering species of concern, and the ecosystems they live in
What is the Endangered Species Act?
300
This management activity is the number one litigation dispute that is brought to District Court for NEPA-Forest Service cases.
What is timber harvesting?
300
Direct experience and exploration of nature
What is a naturalistic value?
300
Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service are a part of this.
What is Department of Interior?
300
The probability of an issue multiplied by the magnitude of harm
What is risk
400
Non-federal landowners voluntarily improve habitat for ESA listed species in exchange for reassurance that no further action from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will take place on their land without their consent.
What are Safe Harbor Agreements?
400
Provide for multiple use and sustained yield of products and services. Insure consideration of economic and environmental aspects of various systems of renewable resource management. Provide for diversity of plant and animal communities. Insure that timber only be harvested where protections exist for soils, watersheds, reforestation, fish and wildlife, recreation, aesthetics, and other resources.
What are the most notable requirements of NFMA?
400
The value associated with the systematic study of structure and function.
What is ecologistic-scientific?
400
A species is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range
What is endangered?
400
According to Nie this political driver consists of schema of press: focus on game of politics drama, conflict and polarization as prerequisites for newsworthiness. The adversarial frame: dichotomy/duality & extremism/confrontation.
What is media framing?
500
The Secretary will only do this after reviewing the best scientific and commercial data.
What is make a determination about an animals threatened or endangered status?
500
Fuel reduction in urban wild land interface that focus with communities and private landowners.
What is Healthy Forest Restoration Act?
500
Value that Yellowhorse and many other Navajo portray (Grand Canyon case)
What is sacred/spiritual?
500
These provide regulatory assurance for non-Federal landowners who voluntarily aid in the recovery of listed species by improving or maintaining wildlife habitat. Landowners manage the enrolled property and may return it to originally agreed-upon “baseline” conditions for the species and its habitat at the end of the agreement, even if this means incidentally taking the species.
What is Safe Harbor Agreements?
500
They oversees a species' conservation once it is delisted from the ESA.
Who is the state?