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67 Cards in this Set
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Which person did Mary Rinehart ride through the Rockies with
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Howard Eaton
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Old Yellowstone days written in 1936 by who
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Owen Wister
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Who headed the commission oversseeing the management of yosemite mariposa grant in the state of california
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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Concord Hymn
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April 19, 1775
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concord Hymn celebrates
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the shot heard round the world, minute men, and the rude bridge across the flood
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John Muir and Ralph waldo emerson met in Yosemite. Muir called emerson a ___
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sequoia
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Which month is the food oak represented in?
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February
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Wrote "A Nations Park"
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George Catlin
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David Harmon stated in the preface that two authores could be called nature writers
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John Muir and John Burroughs
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John Mcphee described your instructor- talks in a slow roll that could get him a job in a movie, his hair looks as though a hair or comb would have never invited him to nature, has a yard which is a showcase of natural succcession
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What the fuck is this question about?
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Owen Wister is noted for writing _____
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The virginian
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Frequently used free verse
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Carl Sandburg
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Had the idea of national parks
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George catlin
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Wrote "Galloping the Great West"
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Thomas Wolfe
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These things I ponder as the kettle sings///"
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Aldo Leopold Scotch
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When the muskrat went under the bridge, I moved
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Annie Dillard
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"It is quite to go down the canyon...mulr..."
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John Burroughs
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"The main duty with which the commisioner should....
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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"It is for us the living to be dedicated to the unfinished work"
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Abe Lincoln (Gettsburg Address)
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"But we were no to be discouraged...there is always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things"
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John Burroughs
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"Cities call i have heard them but they are no voice in all the world so consistent to me than the call of the rockies"
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Baton Rouge is in the Mississippi River Embankment or ____
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Alluvial Plain
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April 19, 1775
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Minute Man Nationial Historic Park
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1864
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Yosemite
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March 1, 1872
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Yellowstone
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1869
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Grand Canyon
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Colorado Plateau
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Grand Canyon
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Judge Cornelius Hedges
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Yellowston
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Lee Ferry
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Grand Canyon
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William Henry Jackson
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Yellowstone
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Ferdinand Hayden
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Yellowstone
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Paul Revere
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Minuteman
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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Yosemite
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Sierra Nevada
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Yosemite
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New england
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Minute Man
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North Bridge
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Minute Men
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Abe Lincoln
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Yosemite
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Minute Man Statue
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Minute Man
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Thomas Moran
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Yellowstone
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Major John Wesley Powell
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Grand Canyon
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John Muir
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Yosemite
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Rocky Mountains physiographic province is divided into 4 sections. The shaded section was _____
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Middle Rockies
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Which scale shows the most area
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1:250,000
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The Cascades are located north of the ______
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Sierra Nevada Province
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Shaded region is the _____
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Piedmont Province
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The fall line seperates the Piedmont from the ______
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coastal plain
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Map projection that is relatively good in showing landmasses at near the same size
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Goodes Interrupted Projection
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This type of projection was first published in 1569
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Mercator Projection
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Drains internally
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Basin and Range
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Hillocks, Hachures, and contour lines all show
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Relief
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First scenic reserve created by federal action
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Yosemite
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Adirondacks protected by the ____
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NY STATE CONSTITIUTION
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Forester who worked on Biltmore Estate, worked for T roosevelt
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Gifford Pinchot
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Which of the following cities is not located on the fall line
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Mobile Alabama
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American society of civil engineers listed 7 wonders of the US, which was not on the list?
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Washington Monument
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Majon John Wesley Powell recommended how much land could support a family on livestock
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2560 acres or 4 sections
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The founder of landscape architecture
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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Set aside land for public protection
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Antiques act
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80 acres with water was needed to support a family through stock raising T/F
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Falsoe
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>Grand canyon, monument valley, painted desert
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Colorado Plateau
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>Redwood, Port Lovos
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Pacific Border
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>Mono lake, salt lake, death valley
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Basin and Range
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>Harpers ferry, Biltmore estate
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Blue Ridge
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>Stone Mountain, Charlettesville, University of VA
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Piedmont
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>Cape Hattaras, Atchafalaya
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Coastal Plain
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>Minute Man, Boston, Vermont
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New England
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Filoli Garden was built by the commissioner. Located on or near the San Andreas Fault T/F
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