Forest Ecology Chapter 1

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Ecology

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study of the interaction between organisms and their envirnoment

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forest ecology

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study of the interactions of forests and their environmments. No specific connection to humans, but their interactions are becoming increasingly important

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forestry

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conserving and managing forests and forest lands to provide a sustainable supply of forest products, conditions, or other values desired by forest owners

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ecosystems

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complex association of biotic and abiotic factors that interact to perpetuate or sustain itself.

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environmental science

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offshoot of ecology, study of ecological principles and their application to humans

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Conservation

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planned management of natural resources in order to promote sustainability and to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect.

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Preservation

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To leave natural resources and forests untouched.

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John Muir

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Preservationist. Founded national parks. wanted sustainable tree farming

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Gifford Pinchot

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conservationist. Founded national forests. Wanted to leave forests as they were.

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Homestead act

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gave americans a section of land west of the mississippi

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George Marsh

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Americas first envirnomentalist. against deforestion. wrote "man and nature"

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Yellowstone Timber preserve

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founded by Grant, first national park.

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Pleistocene overkill

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loss of 71% of north american large mammals 30,000 to 10,000 years ago