This is a long-term negative impact which could reflect trail overuse.
What is soil erosion, soil compaction, presence of invasive species, etc....?
100
This ROS class would be used to identify a space which has a large number of users, is close to modern conveniences, has a high number of management controls, and is very close to paved highways.
What is urban?
100
This broad management principle focuses on the concept of turning "Research into Action".
What is Adaptive Management?
100
(T/F) Local knowledge is important to consider along with scientific data to develop management strategies for ocean fisheries.
What is true?
100
This is one reason park & recreation areas are excellent locales for environmental education programs and activities.
What is (so many options!)...
200
This category of Indicator & Standard covers our attempt to assess perceptions of the visitor experience.
What is social?
200
In this ROS class of places, you would likely not see any motorized vehicles, may run across range cattle, could probably camp there, but there are no campground facilities
What is semi-primitive, non-motorized?
200
This broad concept describes the challenge encountered when the public has equal access to a unique set of resources (or unique public recreation area), and depletes the resource because each individual chooses to exploit the resource according to their own interest without concern for the overall group.
What is tragedy of the commons?
200
Farmers from this state visited the Gulf of Mexico to see the impact of their actions on the ocean.
What is Iowa?
200
These are "theoretical rules that guide human behavior". They can be social or cultural.
What are norms?
300
Useful STANDARDS for recreation settings have these characteristics (you must ID 2 of them).
What are: quantitative, bounded by fixed time, space, location, realistic, expressed as average or proportion or number?
300
The Recreation Opportunity Spectrum is based on these three foundational concepts.
What are remoteness, naturalness, and social experience?
300
This is also known as VIM.
What is Visitor Impact Management?
300
Nutrient rich wetlands built next to farmed areas are also known as this.
What are organic filters?
300
This is the primary goal of environmental education.
What is increasing the ability of people to understand our natural environment?
400
Any one of these is an INDICATOR of the “quality of recreation experience” which was used by researchers at the Schoodic Peninsula portion of Acadia National Park.
What is: # of cars at one time along park road, # of people at one time at Schoodic Point, # of people at one time at Frazer Point, or level of resource impacts on hiking trails?
400
(T/F) An indicator is a specific rule or limit used to ensure an area of a park is in a reasonable state.
What is false?
400
This Management Framework is primarily used by the National Park Service, and was developed to respond to the need for some type of Carrying Capacity related management protocol (you must say the entire name, not just the letters)
What is Visitor Experience and Resource Protection?
400
These are two competing uses of the Stellwagon National Marine Sanctuary discussed in the film Ocean Frontiers.
What are recreation, rich feeding waters for marine life (particularly whales), high ship traffic, natural gas extraction, and wind energy?
400
Building essential ties between people who would likely not otherwise interact out of choice, describes this concept.
What is building social capital?
500
This method of assessing soil erosion involves measuring the maximum depth of the soil loss along a transect established perpendicularly to the trail at the sampling point, from the original land surface to the lowest substrate surface.
What is “Maximum Incision”?
500
(T/F) Creating an opportunity for shipping companies and whale researchers to work together was an effective strategy for developing appropriate protected areas for marine mammals
What is true?
500
Using sustainable farming strategies, farmers upriver from the Gulf of Mexico were able to reduce the amount of nitrates going into the watershed by approximately this percentage.
What is 40-70%?
500
The concept can be described as the maximum sustainable amount of recreation which can be allowed in a certain area without negatively impacting that area while allowing it to still function as a healthy ecosystem.
What is carrying capacity?
500
If we teach 1st, 2nd, & 3rd graders too much about the details of large scale, global environmental disasters, we can trigger this response in young children.