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LA 1203 (4)

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central lowlands
What physiographic province is Niagara Falls?
Basin and range
What physiographic province is the Great Salt Lake in?
interior low plateaus
Mammoth cave is located in what physiographic province?
adirondacks park
Which park is called the forever wild park?
antiquities act
Federal act that allows the executive (president) to set aside historic scientific valuable lands artifacts for protection.
1906
when was the antiquities act passed?
blue ridge
Biltmore Estate is located in what physiographic province?
Frederick Law Olmstead
Who is the father of landscape architecture?
antiquities act
Roosevelt used what federal law to set aside land for protection?
pacific border
Which physiographic province would you find Redwoods and Fort Ross?
Blue ridge
Which physiographic province would you find Harpers Ferry and Great Smokey Mountains in?
coastal plain
Which physiographic province would you find Cape Hateras, the Everglades, and the Atchafalaya?
new england
Which physiographic province would you find NYC (New York City), Minute Man National Park, Boston, and Vermont?
2 years
How many years passed between the idea of making Yellowstone a national park and the time it was signed into law by president?
True
Sept. 20 journal entry tells story of Henry Washburn party fell about future management and utilization of Yellowstone area.
True
Tim Palmer in book said "president's action could be regarded as recognition we can turn to our native landscape for peace beauty hope: Yosemite."
National Park, Arizona; antiquities act of 1906
Where is the Petrified Forest / Painted Desert National Monument? What protects it?
Runs through the Grand Canyon
Where is the Colorado river located?
Lee's ferry
What is located at the base of the Grand Canyon?
the state of California
Olmstead was under what agency?
Harriet Monroe
established poetry magazine
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