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Renewable Resource - Capable of replenishing (via birth or geophysical process) on a TIME FRAME useful
to humans. Essentially Inexhaustible



Renewable Resource Examples - Solar, Wind, Water



Natural Resource - Any component of natural environment that species depend on for their welfare.



Natural Resource Examples - Soil, Water, Rangeland, wildlife, etc.



Anthropocentric View - Regards humans as being a central fact of the universe.



Carrying Capacity - An environment's ability to support a particular organism's population size in current
living conditions forever



Conservation - The rational use of the environment to provide the highest sustainable quality of life for
the greatest number of people and other organisms.



Nonrenewable Resources - Can't be replenished within a reasonable period of time by natural
processess



Exploitation - Max human gain with no care about the environment



Preservation - Protect, set aside, and preserve resources. Nature centered approach. John Muir founded
national parks with this idea



Utilitarian - Sustainable Yield - manage sustainable resources so they never exhaust. Gifford Pinchot and
Theodore Roosevelt.

, Sustainable/ecological approach - Think in terms of whole systems. Resources used to enhance their
potential. Concerned about all resources, even if people don't directly use them



Yellowstone - Made with Muir



John Muir - Preservation of forest land (national parks), 28 forest reserves, established Sierra Club.
Popularized values of wilderness. Preserved remnants. Ecocetric



Preservationist - Muir



Utilitarian - Pinchot



Aldo Leopold - "wildlife management". Marked trees but saw need for preservation. Helped make
primitive areas. MADE GILA WILDERNESS AREA. Stewardship values.



Ding Darling - Des Moines Register Wildlife Cartooonist



Colonial Period - Transformation from vast wilderness diversity to the first human impacts (farming).



Public Doman Myth - Unlimited resources in America



Thomas Jefferson's Intent - Promote Settlement and development



Checkerboard Ownership - The railroads got every other square mile



George Perkins Marsh - "Man and Nature" about how people changed the Earth



Jared Diamond - "Collapse" about how environmental changes effected societies over time

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