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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what bird is particularly liked among people in Wisconsin?

2. What animals do the grizzly bear eat in the spring?

3. According to the narrator, who or what is responsible for the last of the grizzlies being shot?

4. According to the narrator, recreation becomes what kind of process?

5. Wildlife managers try to raise game in the wild by what means?

Short Essay Questions

1. The narrator compares puccoons to what other plant and why?

2. What does the narrator state is the main premise for ethics and the environment?

3. Why are public policies involved with outdoor recreation controversial?

4. According to the narrator, why do people not go to Escudillo?

5. What is meant by invasive species?

6. What does the narrator consider to be part of the tragedy of the extinction of the passenger pigeon?

7. What is the best way to manage national parks according to the narrator?

8. The narrator says that he thinks getting rid of the wolves means more deer, but this isn't the case in the long run. Why?

9. What are the conditions that the narrator's father set when he gives the narrator permission to shoot partridges?

10. According to the narrator, what is the numenon and what is its opposite?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Leopold's view of wilderness recreation. How does this fit with his land ethic? What is the value of this type of recreation to people? What are his five components of the recreational process?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss invasive species. What are they? How do they develop? Give specific examples. How do they relate to the Leopold's views on conservation? The land ethic? Does Leopold consider them harmful? Helpful? A combination?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Leopold's view of land health. What is his concept of land? What does he mean by land health? What are the competing views of land health amongst conservation scientists? Do we achieve land health? How?

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