Natural resources Notes 8-18-2022:
Menominee tribal members were suppose to be shipped out to minnesota but an addition to
treaties put together by the chiefs allowed them to stay. In our area for a long time the green bay
sturgeon bay area was covered with ice. 13000 years ago ice bergs melted. not a lot of record
of what things were like. Land from gulf to canada surveyed the land by the mile. would take
notes by the square mile. Today there are maps of vegetation taken of wisconsin.
There is a tension zone. There is a divide of wisconsin of prairie like land and a northern area of
wetter forestry area.
Natural resources - ethics and philosophy
1918 there was a wildfire in minnesota where 1000 people died. 1930's Kansas had dust storms
or black blizzards. Would blow away 6 inches of tops soil as far down as the plow would go.
Does natural resources mean things in natural that we can use? Too many leaders believe
humans stand above the rest of the natural world -Dr. Daniel Wildcat.
Nature and culture cannot be divorced. The average american can name 100 corporate logos
and only 10 plants. -Robin Kimmerer Sacred land film project- oren lyons said we call it mother
earth because we respect it.
Food sovereignty -Food security, people are entitled to the food of their people and should be
allowed the food of their people and get their daily needs. Diet related diseases are due to
colonization. In many places of the world food is more integrated to ceremonial and spiritual. In
western society food is often wasted and hardly thought of and has less meaning. There is
plenty of meat to go around. Americans eat about 200lbs a year. Sustainable agriculture is a
panic world that people think means they have to eat less food.
Aldo leopold - developed idea that we should view environments as ecosystems rather than
whats best for the human. Ecosystems have intrinsic moral worth.
22-30 million acres of forests in 1800s 16 million acres today mostly less than 10" in diameter.
pine trees were 6ft around and hundreds of feet tall. by the 1890s most logging companies went
out of business because there were no trees that size anymore to cut.
Prairies in wisconsin about 2.1 million acres in mid 1800s less than 10k acres of varying quality
remain, most are less than 10 acres in size and cannot maintain themselves.
Prairie plants: Big blue stem, Cream wild indigo, Purple Prairie clover, round headed
bush-clover found in sandier sites. Rigid Goldenrod many species of this plant. Meadow
Blazingstar likes to grow in damp meadows, beautiful purple. common milkweed important for
monarch caterpillars. Orange and pink milkweeds also grow. Prairies and savannas in wisconsin
had bison or american buffalo. Elk have been reintroduced in wisconsin in small communities.
Greater Prairie chicken, pheasants are from china. few populations in the state of wisconsin.
Natural resources also include soil, rock, water, some of it is for food, aesthetic appeal and fresh
drinking water. Lake michigan and fresh water lakes are really deep. Lake superior is 1333ft.
Lake huron is 751ft deep. Lake erie is 210 feet. Lake michigan is 925 feet deep. Carved out by
the glaciers have fed people for thousands of years. Lots of wild rice restoration is happening. If
you take care of it thousands of lbs of food will come your way. Cattails that grow in this region
are mostly hybrids. Very vigorous love maintained water that doesn't change. Invasive.
Paul L Errington, scientist studied muskrats. How there numbers changed throughout the years
and how their numbers have changed the wetlands. Salmon is not a native species of
wisconsin. Introduced and ate alewife. Since 1995 to 2018 the great lakes are warming.
