LA 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Land Management, Blue Ridge Parkway, Maya Lin
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Were rst group to do remote sensing images. Used a lot to study health of forests. How water drains in di erent areas to rivers, lakes, pools, etc. 828,000 square miles west of the mississippi @ 15 million dollars (5 cents/acre) Looking for trails to help settle the new territories. Making a series of parks all along the oregon trail that reference and celebrate the european and native american in uences on the land. You could literally walk across most of the united states where these trails still exist. Migration to west coast (california) mainly in 1849. Hydraulic mining causes a lot of major environmental problems and erosion. Sacrament and marysville still have huge problems with ooding. Originated with 20 miners in 1859, eventually 10,00 in 1880. Meant to be kept the way it was, people in costumes, try and keep it as well kept as possible. A ton of sites are preserved by the state parks.
