Select a scenario from the list below:
- There is a species of fish (with low numbers) that is having trouble traveling up and down the river because of a dam.
- Chose an area that is economically depressed but has a lot of species diversity, you need to protect the species while providing jobs for locals.
- An animal is being poached for its horn which is believed in some cultures to cure many diseases, it is not critically endangered.
- The demand for farming is increasing, which is destroying native forests and affecting their biodiversity.
- An animal is starting to become isolated because it is afraid to cross roads created by deforestation.
- Local birds typically migrate over the winter, but people are feeding them and thermal pollution at a local stream is keeping the water warmer the birds are not migrating, resulting in water pollution.
- A drought has been going on for a period of time; the water needed for homes, businesses, and farms has decreased lake and river levels impacting the amount available for local flora and fauna.
- Species are being found dead on local beaches due to plastic.
Use the textbook and of info-graphic under course materials to find the best resource management practice to implement.
Create a pamphlet addressing the following:
- What is the issue and why it would work
- Describe the restoration method you selected and why it would be best (with at least 2 examples of how it has worked in similar situations from peer reviewed sources)
- Time frame to complete the plan (include short and long term objectives)
- What is the end goal of the restoration project
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Introduction to Understanding the Environment
Introduction to Understanding the Environment
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Ecological Footprint
Ecological Footprint
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Biomes and Ecosystems
Biomes and Ecosystems
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Population Growth and the Environment
Population Growth and the Environment
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Toxins in the Environment
Toxins in the Environment
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Food and Farming Practices
Food and Farming Practices
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Biodiversity and Restoration Ecology
Biodiversity and Restoration Ecology
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Earth’s Geological Resources
Earth’s Geological Resources
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Environmental Management
Environmental Management
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Water Use and Management
Water Use and Management
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Water Pollution
Water Pollution
Introduction to Understanding the Environment
“Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the Earth as we have in the past … [A] new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programs and initiatives.”
—Pope John Paul II (1989)
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Ecological Footprint
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
—Margaret Mead
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Biomes and Ecosystems
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
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Population Growth and the Environment
“Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victim.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Toxins in the Environment
“In nature, nothing exists alone.”
—Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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Food and Farming Practices
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Biodiversity and Restoration Ecology
“In the process of helping the earth to heal, we help ourselves. If we see the earth bleeding from the loss of topsoil, biodiversity, or drought and desertification, and if we help reclaim or save what is lost—for instance, through regeneration of degraded forests—the planet will help us in our self-healing and indeed survival.”
—Wangari Maathai
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Earth’s Geological Resources
“Wegener’s hypothesis in general is of the foot-loose type, in that it takes considerable liberty with our globe, and is less bound by restrictions or tied down by awkward, ugly facts than most of its rival theories.”
—R. T. Chamberlain (American geologist)
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Environmental Management
“ … we can wonder whether our descendants … will believe that we have honestly striven, in our day and generation, to preserve for our descendants a decent land to live in … ”
—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1936)
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Water Use and Management
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
—Rachel Carson
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Water Pollution
“Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.”
—Carl R. Rogers
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