Download Fall 2008 CSS 287 Exam 1 - Review Questions for Outdoor Recreation and Conservation and more Exams Humanities in PDF only on Docsity! 1 CSS 287 -- Fall 2008 Review Questions for Exam One • What are some characteristics of America's population and changes in society that are affecting outdoor recreation and conservation management? What are some of the societal trends that are affecting outdoor recreation and tourism in America? • What are five cultural universals that have been documented in societies around the world? • Why were the Great Ponds Act and the Boston Commons important to conservation in the USA? • Why was Niagara Falls important to conservation (what lesson did the public learn)? • What was the world's first national park, when was it established, and what were its purposes? • How did the “American solution” to providing parklands for people differ from the old European approach? (Who was the father of this idea & where was it first implemented?) • Your professor said that some authors (e.g. Roderick Nash) have argued that modern people have inherited a bias against wild places based upon how the human species evolved. Your instructor also said that other authors (e.g. socio-biologists) have said that based upon how our species evolved modern people should have an inherent positive reaction to wild places. Can you explain these two rival arguments? • Your professor demonstrated that when we look at a natural landscape we can see more information through vertical blinds than through horizontal blinds. How was this related to outdoor recreation? • Can you name five theories of recreation and play (e.g., catharsis, surplus energy, etc.) and give examples of each? Are there any problems with these theories? • What are the defining characteristics for an officially designated Wilderness area? Who manages Wilderness areas? In what important way are Wilderness areas similar to National Parks and how are they different? • What role did each of the following people play in resource recreation management in America? Frederick Law Olmstead John Muir Gifford Pinchot George Catlin George Perkins Marsh Teddy Roosevelt Stephen Mather • People love to pursue outdoor recreation at the thousands of reservoirs that have been built across America. The way these reservoirs are managed, however, create some major problems and controversies that effect outdoor recreation. What are these problems? • How has our American culture been shaped by our interaction with wildlands?
