APEC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Adaptive Management, Sensitivity Analysis, Goal Programming

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Applied Economics and Statistics
• Course: APEC100
• Professor: Messer Kent

Document Summary

Strategic conservation: the economic science of doing more with less. Yosemite, california - 751,266 acres (1890); 1st national park. 59 national parks in 27 states - 51. 9 million acres (delaware x32) National wilderness areas (657 total, ~110 million acres) Great smoky mountains - north carolina, tennessee; 521,490 acres (1934) Wrangell-st. elias, alaska - 8,323,148 acres (1980); larger than 8 states. Hot springs, arkansas - 5,550 acres (1921) Hawaii volcanoes, hawaii - 323,431 acres (1916) Yellowstone - wyoming, montana, idaho - 2,219,791 acres (1872) Grand canyon, arizona - 1,217,403 acres (1919) Rocky mountains, colorado - 265,828 acres (1915) Us virgin islands - 14,689 acres (1956) Heritage of america"s best idea: inspiring landscapes, preservation of magnificent flora and fauna, promotion of a selection system that ignores opportunity costs. National park service - federal land acquisition. Big cypress national preserve, florida (43,000 acres, . 5 million) Everglades, national park, florida (477 acres, million) - ,370 per acre.