REM 100 Lecture Notes - Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Resource & Environmtl Mgmt
• Course: REM 100
• Professor: Neil Braganza

Document Summary

1864: george perkins publishes physical geography as a modified by human action (revised in 1874 as the earth as modified by human action) 1885 banff national park established as canada"s first national park; 1890: congress establishes sequoia national park and yosemite national park; 1907: john muir publishes the tuolumne yosemite in danger in an effort to prevent the hetch hetchy valley from being dammed (which subsequently failed). 1907: marks the division of the conservation movement into: Preservationist conservationists: sought to maintain natural areas in their natural state, and. Utilitarian conservationists: seek to manage the sustainable harvesting of natural resources for human benefit. Canada: the national parks act was passed in 1930. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. One of the earliest examples of an ecocentric western scholar; Asserts that a basic lack of human regard for the land was the cause of the most resource and agricultural problems.