Natural Resource Policy Final

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What governments choose to do, or choose not to do is a reasonable definition of

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Public policy

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The government SHOULD put a tax on fossil field that is equivalent to the pollution damages they cause

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Normative policy analysis

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What was the Hudson River School?

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A movement of art and literature that viewed nature as morally instructive

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Why was the preservation of the last wild spaces so important to Americans at the end of the 19th century?

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America was (according to the myth) built by rugged individualists whose frontier values shaped American democracy. Those values were put at risk as the frontier closed. Preserving the remaining wilderness preserved the American values that were vital for democracy

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Who founded the Sierra Club and provided the link between Transcendentalist philosophy and landscape preservation?

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John Muir

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What was the case TVA vs Hill about?

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The controversial Tellico Dam construction jeopardized the existence of a small fish

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What analytical framework best describes "the conservation and development of the natural resource of the state are hereby declared to be of paramount public concern...the legislative shall provide for the protection of air, water, and other natural resources of the state from pollution, impairment, and destruction"

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Environmental rights

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An example of sustainable development

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Program enabling women to buy clean burning stoves at a low cost. Less time collecting firewood, more time for school, reduces air pollution and health impairments it causes

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Which philosopher popularized the phrase "the greatest good for the greatest number in the long run"?

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Jeremy Bentham

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In Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin concluded...

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The only solutions were privatization or top-down government intervention

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States, such as Indiana, hold shorelines in an inalienable trust for traditional public uses such as fishing and walking

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Public trust doctrine

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What was Elinor Ostrom's contribution to the management of the commons?

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Communities can overcome the tragedy as long as certain conditions are met

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EPA chief puts former lobbyist as an agency board member who denies climate change

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Agency capture

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What kind of good it service is described as non-rival and non-exclusive?

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Public good

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In what way will the free market fail to provide the socially optimal level of a rival, non-exclusive resource?

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The marker will provide more of thelat resource than is socially optimal (overuse ot overconsumption externality)

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Since the colonial days, which level of government historically played the primary role in allocating and regulating natural resources?

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State

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Woodsy Owl was what type of policy instrument? He urged children to "Give a hoot, dont pollute"

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Persuasion

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Raising the market price through a tax on legal activities that cause social harm, like smoking or industrial pollution

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Financial penalties

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Justice Louis Brandeis said "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants" which could be described as a "sunshine" policy tool?

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Procedure and planning

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EPA roundtable discussion about PFAS in MI - invite only, most attendees were not allowed to voice comments or concerns. Which one of the steps of Arstein's "ladder of participation" would best describe this meeting?

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Consultation

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Citizen must demonstrate _______ or injury in order to sue, and this can lead to environmental laws being enforced

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Standing

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What 1946 law sets out procedures that federal agencies must follow when promulgating rules and adjudicating conflicts?

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Administrative Procedures Act

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Since the Roman empire, which one of the following resources has been most consistently treated as "public trust" resources?

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Tidelands and navigable waterways

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Why cant Michigan ban out-of-state exports of bottled water?

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The "dormant" commerce clause prevents states from interfering in interstate trade

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Under what conditions can the government take a person's property such as land?

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As long as it's for a public use and the owner is justly compensated

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The constitution's takings clause allows physical taking such as private property as well as..

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Regulatory takings...regulating what someone can do with their private property

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Describe what it means for NEPA to be a procedural statute.

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Requires that administrative agencies undergo a formal process to take a systematic, interdisciplinary approach in looking at the consequences of their actions

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Which part of the NEPA process has the LEAST opportunity for public participation?

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Categorical exclusion

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Which part of the NEPA process may end with a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)?

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Environmental Assessment

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Who determines whether an agency actually took a hard look at the environmental impacts of its actions - who enforces NEPA ?

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The federal courts

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What did the Keystone XL Pipeline have to do with NEPA?

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Issuing a Presidential Permit to cross the Canadian border is a major, federal action that triggers NEPA

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When would an agency prepare a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement?

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When a large project might have impacts at multiple spatial scales

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Does Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke giving the keynote address to the Louisiana Oil and Gas Administration meet the definition of public policy?

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No. It is a discrete, individual decision and does not reflect a pattern of choices implemented over time

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When can economic costs be considered under the Endangered Species Act?

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Only during the designation of critical habitat

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How many members does the Supreme Court normally have?

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9

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Which country is best described as favoring conservation of whales?

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Japan

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Which was NOT represented on the God Squad for the northern spotted owl?

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A representative from an environmental advocacy non-governmental organization

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What did the God squad committee decide in the case of the northern spotted owl?

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The committee voted to m.j moce forward with a modified timber project that would have jeopardized the existence of the species

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The God Squad allowed an exemption for the Tellico Dam project to take actions that jeopardized the existence of the snail darter

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True

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The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) requires signatories to engage in 4 activities. Which is NOT one?

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Establish animal welfare laws

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Which agency manages fish living in the ocean?

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NOAA Marine Fisheries Service

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Why can't the Great Lakes states just prohibit out-of-basin transfers of water on their own?

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Water is an article of commerce and the Constitution prohibits states from regulating interstate commerce

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What is needed for legally binding interstate agreement?

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Approval by each state's legislature and governor and a federal authorizing law

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How did the Great Lakes-St Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact avoid the "arbitrary and capricious" problem of the 1986 Water Resources Development Act?

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The Compact includes specific decision- making standards for the governor's to use when evaluating applications

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Why was Wauskesha, WI granted access to the Great Lakes water even though it is outside the watershed boundary?

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Waukesha meets the criteria of being in a straddling county, was using it for drinking water, and promised to return the equivalent amount of treated wastewater

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Unlike the 1986 Water Resources Development Act, the Great Lakes-St Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact applies to

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Both diversions and consumptive uses

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Which policy perspective is best described as "the rational and scientific method of making technical decisions through a single, central authority"?

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Progressive utilitarianism

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What were the key differences between the perspective of Gifford Pinchot and John Muir?

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Muir advocated for preservation of natural resources, Pinchot advocated for their wise use

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A farmer in New Mexico who has junior rights loses her access to irrigation water during a drought - which type of water law is at play?

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Prior appropriation

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Which policy mandated planning and participation as a component of forest management?

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National Forest Management Act

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Trump shrank Bears Ears, created Camp Nelson National Monument through the

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Antiquities Act

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What was the driving force behind the preservation movement of the late 1800s?

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American values are rooted in agrarian society's connection to nature which is rapidly being lost

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Maximum Sustained Yield on a graph

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Top of the bell

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Fisheries management

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Scientists knowledge of fish population dynamics is limited. They often dont know the exact shape of the yield curve, but assume that it is symmetrical

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Fisheries close once reported tallies reach the catch limit

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Derby (no allocation)

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What policy or agreement provides "for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible for the orderly development of the whaling industry"?

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International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling

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Most of Maines lobsters are caught within 3 miles from shore. Which unit of government has jurisdiction over fish caught in these coastal waters?

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States

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Courts limited the amount of water Nestle could extract bc of social harm to fishing, navigation and conservation. On what legal principles did this stand?

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Under riparian rights, landowners can extract a "reasonable" amount of groundwater as limit as it doesnt negatively harm others

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What federal agency was created in 1902 to build dams and irrigation projects to provide farmers with water in the arid West?

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Bureau of Land Managment

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Water markets can encourage conservation, what aren't benefits of it?

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Environmental groups cant buy water and keep it in the river, and businesses cant charge immorally high prices to poor farmers

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Which court case did the WOTUS (Waters of the United States) rule more clearly define vague definitions in the Clean Water Act?

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Raponos v United States

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According to current policy, which of the following wetlands would most likely require a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit to dredge or fill in?

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A wetland adjacent to the Mississippi River and is impaired by industrial pollution

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For what is the Drain Commission responsible?

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Protecting public health, safety, and welfare by managing surface waters

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How were the eastern national forests, like those in MI, created?

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The 1911 Weeks Act allowed the federal government to work with the states to acquire land to protect watersheds of navigable streams

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To which resources does the Multiple Use Sustainesld Yield Act apply?

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All of the various renewable resources

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What policy sets standards for and ensures joint management of navigation, access, and use of the shared waters of the Great Lakes?

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Boundary Waters Treaty

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What step in the Eightfold Path of policy analysis involves creating a rubric to evaluate the various options so that you will know when your problem has been solved?

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Step 4: Selecting the criteria