Class

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Class help email address

• envir110_at_u.washington.edu

Class web address http/soilslab.cfr.washington.e
du/esc110/lecturewtr04
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Dates in Chronological Order January Saturday
24th - Thornton Creek (130 to 530
pm) Saturday 31st - Snoqualmie Falls (9 am to
1 pm) Saturday 31st - Thornton Creek (130 to
530 pm) February Saturday 7th - Snoqualmie
Falls (9am to 1pm) Tuesday 3rd - Rabanco and
Nucor Mill (noon to 4pm) February 10th -
Rabanco and Nucor Mill (noon to 4pm) Thursday
12th - West Point/GroCo (9am to 1pm) Tuesday
12th - Cedar River Watershed (130 to
530) Thursday 17th - Cedar River Watershed
(130 to 530pm) Thursday 19th - West
Point/GroCo (9am to 1pm)
You will need to complete a one-page field trip
report answering questions related to each field
trip. This needs to be turned in (hardcopy) in
class within one week of the field trip you
attend. Field trip sign-up will begin on
Friday.
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Group Project

• Topic and group selected by Jan 21.
• Draft of your project due to be posted by Feb 9.
• Final Projects due to be posted by Feb 28.

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History of Conservation and Environmentalism

• Stages of Activism
• Pragmatic resource conservation
• Moral aesthetic nature preservation
• Growing concern about health ecological damage
  cause by pollution (modern environmentalism)
• Global environmental citizenship

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Pragmatic Resource Conservation

• 1864 George Perkins wrote Man Nature
• Influenced President Theodore Roosevelt and
  Gifford Pinchot (his chief conservation advisor)
• Roosevelt created Forest Service w/ Pinchot as
  chief
• Their policies were utilitarian conservation
  (save forests for utility not aesthetics or
  ecology)

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Preservation - moral aesthetic

• John Muir (first president of Sierra Club)
  opposed Pinchots utilitarian policies
• Nature deserves to exist for its own
  sake-regardless of its usefulness
• Biocentric preservation fundamental right of
  other organisms to exist and pursue their own
  interests (spiritual values aesthetics)

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Modern Environmentalism

• 1962 Rachel Carson wrote Silent Springs(about
  pollution the threat of toxic chemicals to
  humans other species)
• Mostly effects to environment that are local,
  regional or maybe even national

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Global Environmentalism

• International travel and communication today have
  created a - Global Village or Spaceship Earth
• Earth Summits (eg Rio de Janeiro) or Earth Days
  or .
• We have all become a Global Citizen(whatever we
  do here may influence someone around the world!!!)

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ModernEnvironmentalism
GlobalCitizen
Conservation/Preservation
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Basic Causes of Environmental Problems
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Human Disturbance in the World
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Degree of Economic Development - 2001
(as measured by per capita gross national income
in purchasing power parity)
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Acid Deposition
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P number of people A affluence or average
resource-use per person T technology or the
beneficial harmful environmental effects of the
technologies used to provide consume each
unit of resource
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Obviously, if everyone in the world tried to live
at consumption levels approaching ours, the
results would be disastrous.
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Environmental Science looks at these complex
interactions
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