5.7 HuGeo Q4 Public Lands versus Big Money

5.7 HuGeo Q4 Public Lands versus Big Money

Slide show and Youtube video (98 minutes) about the Fight for America’s Public Lands

We will watch the video in class over two days; if you are absent on Thursday celebrating Eid, over the weekend please watch the first half of the video

What are public lands?

Public lands are areas of land and water that today are owned collectively by U.S. citizens and managed by government agencies. ... Most public lands are managed by the federal government, by a state or local government, or by a sovereign tribal nation. This slide show will be about NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS.

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Minnesota public lands

National Parks

National Forests

National Wildlife Refuges

National Conservation Areas

National Monuments

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Minnesota has two National Monuments

Wilderness

National Historic Sites

National Memorials

National Battlefields

National Recreation Areas

Wild and Scenic Rivers

National Seashores and National Lakeshores

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Michigan has the National Lakeshores.

National Trails

Bureau of Land Management

BLM: the federal agengy

Sagebrush Rebellion

Federal land ownership in the west

Permanent federal land ownership was one several factors for the “Sagebrush Rebellion”, an effort that started in the late 1970s to push for state or local control over federal land and management decisions. This still continues today.

United States energy independence

• US energy independence is the idea of eliminating the need for the United States to import petroleum and other foreign sources of energy.

• Large individual US pipelines and other fuel infrastructure and extraction projects are controversial issues in US politics.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

40,000 years following the caribou herd

Caribou

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Bears Ears reduction under the Trump administration

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Boundary Waters Minnesota and two mining projects