Landscape final

What did Charles Dickens write that is very seasonal right now?

A Christmas Carol

T/F: Charles Dickens was British

True

Whom was a member of parliament and not American?

James Bryce

What was Factories in Lowell Massachusetts about?

Lowell, MA
Textile Mills
Poetry Magazine

Survey system in Louisiana?

South-> French long lots
North--> Townships

Who was a pianist before he was a photographer?

Ansel Adams

What person came up with the idea of National Parks?

George Catlin

What type of paintings did George Catlin paint?

Lifestyles of Indians

Who wrote Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of North American Indians in 1841?

George Catlin

Is recreation a value of wilderness?

Yes

What is Marks of Human Passage about?

Biography on Powell
Powells Travels down the Colorado River

Who walked across volcanoes during the nighttime?

Mark Twain

Who wrote "Ktaadn" in the Maine Woods?

Henry David Thoreau

Who compared the volcanoes Vesuvius and Kilauea?

Mark Twain

Which is the bigger volcano? Where is it located?

Kilauea
Hawaii

Who wrote Footloose in Democracy?

Bernard De Voto

Who wrote A Second World?

Bayard Taylor

Who wrote Western Expansion across Wide Missouri?

Bernard de Voto

What did Wallace Stegner do?

a. Joined in on a fight for the Dam of Echo Park
b. Friends with De Voto (according to Harmon)
c. Wrote Marks of Human Passage

Who said "In Wilderness is the presevation of the world?

Henry David Thoreau

Who went to Alaska to climb the peaks?

Bob Marshall

Where is the GILA National Forest located?

New Mexico

Who said, "How can you buy the sky, how can you own the rain and wind"?

Chief Seattle

Who said, "We live this earth as a newborn loves its mothers heart beat. If we sell you our land, care for it as we have cared for it?

Chief Seattle.

Who found petrified Cypress at the base of Brown's Cliffs on the Mississippi River (today known as the White Cliffs of Port Hudson) when traveling to Louisiana?

William Bartram (this was his final destination)

Who painted the Magnolia Warbler?

William Bartram (the son)

was pictured with a background painted by his second wife, Maris Martin, which is the Franklinia Altathamia.(named for the river in Georgia where John and William Bartrum found this plant)

Reverend Bachman's Warbler

Who said, "And from the eastern boundary of the vast golden flower bed rose the mighty Sierra, miles in height, and so gloriously colored, and so radiant, it seemed not clothed with light, but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city?

John Muir

What is the Atchafalaya?

a. The land is raising due to sediment and deposition along the banks
b. It has a dynamic landscape

Who was the author that preceded De Voto?

Wallace Stegner

Who did Wallace Stegner write about?

An autobiography about John Wesley Powell, how he sailed down the green river to get to Echo Park

What is the relationship between A Christmas Carol and The Factories in Lowell Massachusetts, both written by Charles Dickens?

Conditions of Workers

Who went "Hotfooted" one night?

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

What is The Second World written about?

Mammoth Cave

What did De Voto write that got him a Pulitzer prize?

Western Expansion Across the Wide Missouri

What was Gilford Pinchot's profession?

First Forester

What is the name of the survey system basically going from the Ohio Pennsylvania line all the way across the US to California?

Township and Range

What was the First National Park?

Yellowstone

What was the first scenic reserve?

Yosemite

Land in the Louisiana basin is rising from?

Sediment deposition

Who said, "This we know: All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves?

Chief Seattle

Which of the following green land is under the control of the national park service, battlefields, grass lands, wildlife refugee, or energy?

Battlefields

What did Thomas Moran paint?

Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

What was the role of the Hudson River School of Painting?

To help Americans to see and appreciate nature/wilderness

Who gave a lecture at Harvard on Nature that was considered by the Phi Beta Kappa address "The American Scholar" of our intellectual Declaration of Independence?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who studied Birds?

John James Audubon

What does BLM stand for?

Bureau of Land Management

What does TVA stand for?

Tennessee Valley Authority

What does COE stand for?

Corps of Engineers

What did Bernard De Voto sit in at the Harper's Magazine?

An easy chair

What did Bernard De Voto write about?

a. Dinosaur National Park
b. Controversy at Echo Park
c. The Damn Dam

Who wanted to compare workers conditions with factories in Lowell and quality of life?

Charles Dickens
Huanted, Desperate misery

Who wrote about Mammoth Cave?

Bayard Taylor

Where can the Valley of Humiliation, Great Relief and Gothic gallery be found? Who wrote about these places?

Mammoth Cave in Kentucky
Bayard Taylor in his article A Second World

Who said that Echo Park has turned political?

David Harmon

Who won the Pultizer prize for the Western Expansion Across the Wide Missouri in 1937?

Bernard De Voto

Why did David Harmon stop Mirror of America at Echo Park?

a. Echo Park is a major point in the environmental conservation movement
b. Marks the coming of age of the conservation age as a political force

The first battle battle-book, written by Wallace Stegner was called?

This is Dinosaur, Echo Park and its Magic River

Who said, "it is the same with aesthetics: one may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, and intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the Americ

Bernard De Voto

Who said, "According to Jackson, who, in his capacity of a geological surveyor of the State, has accurately measured it�the altitude of Ktaadn is 5,300 feet or a little more than one mile above the level of the sea�it is then evidently the highest point i

Henry David Thoreau

Who is a Naturalist, Preservationist, Writer

John Muir

Who is the Franklinia Alaatamaha named for?

Benjamin Franklin

Who found the Franklinia Alatamaha?

William and John Bartram

Where was the Franklinia Alatamaha found?

Along the Alathamaha River in Georgia

What is the Franklinia Alatamaha also called?

The Lost Tree

Who painted the "kindred Spirits"?

Asher B. Durand

Why did Asher B Durand paint the "Kindred Spirits"?

As a eulogy a year after Thomas Cole's Death

What 2 men are depicted in the "Kindred Spirits" painting?

*Thomas Cole (Red Coat)
*William Cullen Bryant, Poet
*Ledge above Kaaterskill Cove in the Catskills of NY

What did Thomas Cole do?

Founder of the Hudson River School of Art and Painting

Where did Thomas Cole study art?

Europe

Thomas Cole painted a series of paintings called

The Course of Empire

What are the 5 Paintings in "The Course of Empire" (in order 1-5)

1) The Savage State
2) The Arcadian or Pastoral State
3) The Consumption of Empire
4) Destruction
5) Desolation

The Hudson River School of Art is considered the __________ of the new world

First art school

Who is William Cullen Bryant? What did he do?

He was the First one to suggest the idea for Central Park in NYC

Who painted "The Rocky Mountains"?

Albert Bierstadt

At which fundraiser did "The Rocky Mountains" earn the highest amount paid for a painting?

New York Metropolitan Fair and the money was used for the American Sanitation Commission

Who was the secretary of the United Sanitation Commission?

Fredrick Law Olmsted

Who were the three main characters from the "Wild by Law" movie?

Howard Zahniser
Bob Marshall
Aldo Leopold

Who was Aldo Leopold?

Forester
Establisher of Ethics
he put ethics and ecology together.

What did Aldo Leopold write?

Sand County Almanac

What area is Aldo Leopold responsible for?

Primitive area in the GILA National Forest

What was the problem with the process of establishing area in the GILA National Forest?

Any secretary could change it
20 years of lobbying
In 1964 the Wilderness Act was passed

What was the compromise in the Wilderness Act of 1964?

Lands had to come out of national parks, refuges, forests, landmarks and memorials, NOT FROM the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Who was Bob Marshall?

a. Young forester
b. Counter
i. He counted everything....
c. Author
d. Socialist

What did Bob Marshall do?

a. He wanted all forests in public control
B. He pushed to have Leopold a part of the group working toward wilderness protection

Who was Howard Zahniser

a. A bureaucrat
b. Lobbyist
c. Pictured wearing a jacket with large pockets

What did Howard Zahniser carry in his pockets?

a. Filled with rings of bills going before congress
b. Membership blanks for The Wilderness Society
c. Testified for all the hearings on wilderness
d. He died before President Johnson could sign the Wilderness Bill

What did Leopold, Marshall and Zahniser form?

The Wilderness Society

What did the Wilderness Society do?

Protected Wilderness Areas
Took 20 years of lobbying to get the Wilderness Bill Passed

Who wrote The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America?

John James Audubon and John Bachman

Who is William Henry Jackson?

Photographer
Photographed the Mount of Holy Cross

What is the "Gateway to the West

Natural Bridge of Virginia

What is the Natural Bridge of Virginia now called?

Camp David

What was built on the Natural Bridge of Virginia?

A Cabin

Who associated with the Natural Bridge in Virginia?

Thomas Jefferson

What was written on Thomas Jefferson's tombstone?

a. "Author of the Declaration of American Independence"
b. "Author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom"
c. "Father of the University of Virginia

Who created the Zone Sysytem of Photography?

Ansel Adams

What is the Zone system of photography?

a. Blackest black to whitest white
b. Most detail possible
c. Coming up in the middle is gray and exposing it

Why did Ansel Adams think in terms of the Zone system?

He was a Pianist first
He wanted to play with all 88 keys of the piano and felt the same way about photography

What did Ansel Adams do in addition to inventing the zone system?

Helped establish the first school of photography and the first exhibit of photography in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

How big is a township?

6 sq miles on each side
36 sections
1 section = 640 acres

What was the section number of the school board section in the township?

16

Which sections were held for government or public use?

8
11
26
29

What is the Ordinance of 1785?

That area can be reserved for government needs

The United States Forests Service is in what department of Federal Government?

Department of Agriculture

The United States Parks Service is in what department of Federal Government?

Department of the Interior

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is in what department of Federal Government?

Department of the Interior

Why is the Park Service in the Department of the Interior?

When Yellowstone was established, there was no state of Wisconsin

Who was the author of the first international best seller of the new world, published in FOUR languages, and what was the title of the publication?

William Bartram
Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida

Through the National Park Service Act, the Department of the Interior controls what?

a. National Parks
b. Monuments
c. Recreation Areas
d. Seashore/Lakeshore
e. National Parkways
f. Battlefields/Historic Sites/N. Capital Parks

What are 5 values of Wilderness?

a. Protection of Natural Areas
b. Area Acts as a Benchmark
c. Maintenance of Habitat
d. Recreation
e. Scientific Research

What were Lewis and Clark looking for as they crossed the cotton?

Water route
In order to travel by boat instead of foot
They never found one

Who was the Native American woman that traveled with Lewis and Clark?

Sacagawea

Who said, "I would rather fight two Indians than have to face a bear?

Meriwether Lewis

Who climbed a 100ft Douglass Fir just to experience a windstorm?

John Muir

Henry David Thoreau went to which University?

Harvard at Cambridge

What was the size of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond?

10x15

Where was John Muir born?

Dunbar, Scotland

Which University did John Muir Attend?

University of Wisconsin

Where was John Muir's first home in the US?

Portage, Wisconsin

From who was Louisiana purchased? For how much?

France for 15 Million

What year did the Louisiana Purchase take place?

1803

Who was the first native-born artist naturalist?

William Bartram

Who was a botanist?

John Bartram

Who could be the poster child for transcendentalism?

Henry David Thoreau

Who said "All men are created equal"?

Thomas Jefferson

Where did Aldo Leopold live?

Wisconsin

Which museum had the first collection of photography?

Museum of Modern art in NYC

in 1820, one out of 10 paintings on the walls of museums were landscapes; By 1850 how many were landscapes?

Nine out of ten

Who helped established the first collection of photography in the Museum of Modern Art?

Ansel Adams

Who wrote Marks of Human Passage?

Wallace Stegner

Who is the last author in Mirror of America?

Bernard De Voto

Who wrote Hawaii Volcanoes?

Mark Twain

Who wrote Should cars Be Allowed in Yosemite

James Bryce

Who wrote Nature?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who wrote Factoires in Lowell Massachusetts?

Charles Dickens

Mark Twain is a pen name for which person?

Samuel Clemons