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divinity found in the natural world, spiritual truths most accessible in nature.
hint: Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism
Advocated proportioning.
He believed there was a need for balance for a spectrum of conditions. Some parts city, other parts nature.
Henry David Thoreau
He advocated preservation of nature. He didn't want balance between nature and city life.
Soul through contact with the primitive = human benefit
Preservation
John Muir
Primitive philosophy developed by John Muir evolved into the....
National Park Service
He advocated conservation of nature.
Sustainable logging, mining, grazing as well as recreation
Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot's philosophies developed into the....
National FOREST service
He believed that wilderness was essential for our unique American Culture.
Argued that reduction of wilderness has been good, but argued that elimination would be bad.
Balance
Leopold
First to identify benefits of wilderness in psychological terms.
Fulfills psychological urge for challenge, adventure and freedom.
Provides an escape.
Restores equilibrium
Aesthetically Pleasing
Bob Marshall
Out Door Recreation Resources Review Commission
ORRRC
Charged with studying demand for outdoor recreation and supply needed to meet demand through the end of the 20th century.
ORRRC
First director of the Sierra Club.
Instrumental in establishing the US national wilderness preservation system.
David Brower
Old World... The New World... Enlightenment Period...Transcendentalism...Fall of the West... The 20th century...
The stages of America's view on the outdoors
The wilderness was frowned upon.
Viewed wilderness as a constant struggle.
Some people were scared of it.
hint: particular age
Old World
Opposite of paradise belief.
They carried old world means over to the ....
Testing Ground
Scary
The New World: The Pilgrims
Humans began to use reason and science to understand the natural world.
hint: period of time
Enlightenment Period
The outdoors and nature was desirable.
hint: period of time
Romantic Era
Belief in the superiority of a simple way of life close to nature
Primitivism
Involves an interaction between people and the Environment
Outdoor Recreation
Two dimensions of Outdoor Recreation
Human and Natural resource dimensions
Necessitates understanding of leisure and recreation
Human Dimension
Understanding of natural resource management
hint: dimension
Natural Resource Dimension
Providing opportunities for satisfying outdoor recreation activities.
Outdoor Recreation Management
1. Preservation of scenic areas
2. Management of federal lands
3. Cooperation with the states
4. Promotion of interstate arrangements
5. Assumption of vigorous, cooperative leadership in a nationwide rec effort
America's policy on OR
describes the tendency for human beings to regard themselves as the central and most significant entities in the universe
Anthropocentric
nature centered vs. being human centered
ecocentric
This is formed by the interaction of living organisms with their environment
Ecosystem