National Parks

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Pullman National Monument

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Located in Chicago, named a landmark in 1972, Obama making into National monument, nations 1st company towns

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Madison Grant

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Conservationist, found many different environmental and philanthropic organizations and developing much of the discipline of wildlife management.

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The Passing of the Great Race

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1916 book by Madison Grant.

Grant's proposal to create a strong eugenics program for the "Nordic" population

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Benito Mussolini

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Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943.

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Blood and Soil

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refers to an ideology that focuses on ethnicity based on two factors, descent blood (of a folk) and territory. It celebrates the relationship of a people to the land they occupy and cultivate, and it places a high value on the virtues of rural living.

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Reich Nature Protection Law

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1 July 1935, passed to protect nature, Nazi Germany was the first in the world to place the wolf under protection.

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Lüneburg Heath Nature Park

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Northern Germany, 440 sq mi)

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Alpine ibex

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a species of wild goat that lives in the mountains of the European Alps.Gran Paradiso National Park in northwest Italy

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The “Baby Boom”

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period marked by a greatly increased birth rate (1946–1964) Post World War II

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Federal Highway Act

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June 29, 1956,US$25 billion for the construction of 41,000 miles, assist military in traveling/transporting from one side of country to other

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Holiday Inn

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U.S. hotel chain Kemmons Wilson,inspired to build his own motel after being disappointed by poor quality and inconsistent roadside accommodations during a family road trip to Washington, D.C.

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“Industrial tourism”

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tourism in which the desired destination includes industrial sites peculiar to a particular location. Jack Daniel's distillery tours in the United States

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Mission 66

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United States National Park Service ten-year program that was intended to dramatically expand Park Service visitor services by 1966, in time for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Park Service.

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King Leopold II

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founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture

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Virunga National Park

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established in 1925, poaching and the Congo Civil War have seriously damaged its wildlife population. Democratic Republic of Congo

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Lake Edward

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smallest of the African Great Lakes. border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda,

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M23

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Congolese Revolutionary Army, led to the displacement of large numbers of people. Virunga National Park

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Emmanuel de Merode

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has been the director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2008.

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Soco International

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an international oil and gas exploration and production company,

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Biscayne National Park

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National Park located in southern Florida, south of Miami. The park preserves Biscayne Bay and its offshore barrier reefs.

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“Spite Highway”

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Islandia supporters bulldozed a highway six lanes wide right down the center of the island, destroying the forest for 7 miles,so much environmental damage, no one would want it for a national monument

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Lancelot Jones

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Lancelot Jones was the first private landowner to sell his land to the federal government for the new national monument, on the condition that he would be allowed to live out his life in the family home on Porgy Key.Biscayne National Park in 1980,

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Leopold Report

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Wildlife Management in the National Parks, is a 1963 paper composed of a series of ecosystem management recommendations

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Wilderness Act

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signed into law in 1964, created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.

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Robert Stanton

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career civil service administrator, who served for almost four decades in the United States National Park Service. He was the first African American to be appointed as the Director of the Park Service, serving 1997-2001

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Great Denali Protest

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hey went into the park, fired off guns, made campfires, and conducted various other activities prohibited under Federal regulations.

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Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act

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a United States federal law passed on November 12, 1980 by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 2 of that year.special protection to over 157,000,000 acres of land, including national parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments, wild and scenic rivers, recreational areas, national forests, and conservation areas.

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Media and Apocalypse

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critical examination of how newspaper and television journalists reported three catastrophes. The focus is on the processes by which journalists identified news sources and gathered data,

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Yellowstone Fires of 1988

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formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control with increasing winds and drought

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Snowmobiles in national parks

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early 1970s, when the park began to regulate oversnow vehicles, strict management of motorized uses in the park did not occur until the early 2000s, when limits on the number of machines, speed zones, nighttime closures and other measures were adopted

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Muir Glacier

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Muir Glacier is a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is currently about 0.7 km wide at the terminus.

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Senator Jim Inhofe

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senior United States senator from Oklahoma and a member of the Republican Party. Brought snow to senate floor to disprove climate change

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Ankarana National Park

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northern Madagascar was created in 1956.small, partially vegetated plateau composed of 150-million-year-old middle Jurassic limestone

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Ambondromifehy, Madagascar

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a reputation among globe-trotting gemstone traders and tourists as a source of some of the world's most precious natural wonders

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Global Bazaar

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Made in Madagascar, in which people simultaneously trade goods and seek information. sapphires and ecotourism

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Douglas Tompkins

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American environmentalist, prominent landowner, conservationist and a former businessman.Tompkins co-founded and ran two clothing companies: the outdoor clothing company The North Face, ESPRIT clothing

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John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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He had a special interest in conservation, and purchased and donated land for many American National Parks, including Grand Teton (hiding his involvement and intentions behind the Snake River Land Company), Acadia, Great Smoky Mountains, Yosemite, and Shenandoah.

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Funhogs

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Deep Ecology

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contemporary ecological and environmental philosophy characterized by its advocacy of the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, and advocacy for a radical restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.

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Pumalin Park

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Pumalin Park

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Patagonia National Park

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conservation tool for protecting and restoring wildlands for wildlife and people alik

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Patagonia Sin Tompkins

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Douglas Tompkins—the founder of Esprit and The North Face—is using his fortune to build massive national parks in Chile and Argentina. But what he sees as philanthropy, local ranchers see as meddling.