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Yellowstone 1872
The first National Park, which was est. "as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." TERM 2
Phloem
DEFINITION 2 Tissue of the inner bark of woody plants through which carbohydrates are transported. TERM 3
Synecology
DEFINITION 3 The study of the community in relation to its environment. TERM 4
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
DEFINITION 4 Provides for the protection of prehistoric and historic resources; to foster conditions under which modern society and prehistoric and historic resources can exist in productive harmony. TERM 5
Stomata
DEFINITION 5 Opening in the surface of a leaf through which water vapor, carbon dioxide, and oxygen pass.
Timber Tresspass Law of
Imposed a fine of not less than three times the value of the timber and imprisonment for not more than twelve months upon anyone who should cut, wantonly destroy, or remove any live oak, red cedar, or other timber on lands reserved or purchased by the U.S. for the use of the Navy. TERM 7
Antinquities Act of 1906
DEFINITION 7 Provided for est. national monuments for the preservation of features of historical and scientific interest. TERM 8
Mycorrhiza
DEFINITION 8 A mycorrhiza (Gk.,: fungus roots, pl mycorrhizae, mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic (generally mutualistic, but occasionally weakly pathogenic) association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant. TERM 9
Ecosystem
DEFINITION 9 An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving, physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water, and sunlight. TERM 10
Forest and Dynamics
DEFINITION 10 The study of changes in forest stand structure that occur over time.
Ordinance of 1785
Provided for the rectangular system of survey of the public lands. TERM 17
Transfer Act of 1905
DEFINITION 17 The Transfer Act of 1905 transferred the forest reserves of the United States from the Department of the Interior, General Land Office to the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry. TERM 18
John Muir
DEFINITION 18 Preservationist; founder of the Sierra Club. TERM 19
Broad-Arrow Policy
DEFINITION 19 Forbade the cutting of all white pine trees 24 inches or more in diameter. TERM 20
Homestead Act of 1862
DEFINITION 20 The Homestead Act is one of two United States federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres ( hectares or one-fourth section) of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River.
Stephen
Mather
First director of the National Park Service.
