PUP-4203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Certified Wood, Kuznets Curve, Environmental Politics
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Concepts: preservaion/conservaion, types of public lands, wilderness, deforestaion trends. 2 separate philosophical moivaions for having public land in u. s. Conservaion and preservaion conservaion: sees public lands as a resource that we should sustainably use preservaion, we cant to preserve these resources by not using them very much. Recreaion maybe not chopping down trees diferent types of land in us emphasis preservaion vs. conservaion. Most of the public land is in the west. Naional parks tend to be more preservaionist. 92% of public land is in the west. 76% of nevada is owned by federal govt. Blm is more conservaionist- more about mining and grazing. Single largest land holder in the u. s. muliple uses. Conlict over diferences in how recreaional uses happen. A special designaion of land that can happen in any type of area. States oten have wilderness area designaions that are parallel to federal wilderness area.
