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Co-creating FIFTH Freedom natural heritage activities (FFnha) Eco-Challenge
digital topographical map libraries with reusable learning objects (thinkLets)
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML adopted by BLM,NPS,USFS,. Fish and Wildlife, and Federa Highways
and will be incorporated into nationwide standards for GIS trail data.
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Americans developed the land’s natural resources in many other ways as well. They used water from the nation’s vast river systems to irrigate arid land and to transport people and goods. They built harbors for ports along the coastlines in order to ship and receive goods from all over the world. They exploited the forests and the fisheries, building major industries providing goods for domestic consumption and for export.
Industry developed early in the United States. During the first half of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution spread from Europe and stimulated the rapid growth of industry in the Northeast. Raw materials were brought to the Northeast from other parts of the country by ship and by a rapidly expanding rail system. Industrial plants processed the raw material into finished products for export and for domestic consumption.
From 1850 to 1920, industrial expansion continued and moved westward. Chicago, Illinois, became the leading meatpacking center of the United States. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became synonymous with steel. Detroit, Michigan, emerged as the automobile capital of the world. Other large U.S. cities developed their own specialties. By the beginning of World War I (1914-1918), America had become the world’s greatest industrial giant. see United States (History).
However, as Americans developed the land and its resources, they sometimes created environmental problems. Forests and natural grasslands began disappearing as early as colonial times (17th and 18th centuries), as settlers converted more and more wilderness into farmland. In the 20th century, urban sprawl and industrial expansion led to pollution of the air and water. A growing population, and its demands for a convenient lifestyle, generated tremendous amounts of pollution and waste. By the mid-1990s, Americans created 2.0 kg (4.3 lbs) of trash per person per day. Often the highest hill around a typical U.S. city consisted of the waste buried at the local sanitary landfill. See also Air Pollution; Water Pollution.
In the last 30 years of the 20th century, however, Americans have become more aware of environmental problems and have begun programs to reduce pollution and conserve natural areas. People also learned to recycle, to reuse resources, and to protect endangered species. See also Conservation.
Web Services and the National Hydrography Dataset Plus
A variety of Web services that leverage the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus) and information linked to the underlying NHD are now available or planned for the near future. The NHDPlus surface water drainage network enables Web-based up/downstream query of water quality information, including water quality assessments, water quality impairments, and permitted dischargers. This presentation will describe a collection of such Web services that are being delivered by the USGS and the USEPA.
Alan Rea, USGS, and Thomas Dewald, U.S. EPA

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Thesis:
Military maps documenting overland railroad routes to western natural resource areas that enabled "manifest destiny" guided and influenced an evolving era characterized by North American inter-regional conflict and conquest (1821-2020).
Eastern empire-building attitudes strongly-influenced industrial age extractive economics as expanding immigrant populations challenged natural barriers to the limits of growth!
Sources
(David Dary - 2000: The Santa Fe Trail)
Historic Route Truman "Santa Fe" "Oregon Trail"
NextSteps:
While co-creating the Upper Mississippi River Recreation Area (UMRRA) Visitors' Center
at Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM), the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) adapted
community-based outdoor http://Recreation.gov mapping
pioneered by MnDNR Firewise/GeoScouting collaborative efforts.
[PDF]
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML GeoXT dataloggers prior to a GPS survey on land ...
... George Sibley. Gene Simon. Southworth Bros.
Jack Spruance. John Stutzman. Julie Sullivan ... quiviracoalition.org/images/pdfs/1018-2007_Conference_Program.pdf - Similar pages
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Eco-Challenge courseware ...
was first piloted in the 9-Mile Creek Metro Watershed District (MWD)
at the Minnesota River Port of Bloomington near Historic Fort Snelling.
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Kansas Anthropological Association Journal (Vol 8.4-5)
(Editor: Randall M. Thies - January 1988: Hard Chief's Village)
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Publisher: Spatial Climate Analysis Service, Oregon State University; USDA - NRCS National Water and Climate Center, Portland, Oregon; USDA - NRCS National Cartography and Geospatial Center, Fort Worth, Texas Content Title: United States Average Annual Precipitation Coverage Area: United States Map Scale: 1:2000000 Service Type: ArcIMS Image Service Latest Status: Service Running
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Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Content Title: Watersheds of the United States Image Service Coverage Area: United States Map Scale: 1:2000000 Service Type: ArcIMS Image Service Latest Status: Service Running
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MnSCU-iTeach 2002: Blended Visual Learning geoWIZard :: Know Your Watershed Impact Zones & Wilderness Inquiry Zones (WIZ)
The technology providing the map services is produced by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), a supplier of GIS software and related services.
What do you think?
Please let us know how you like the IMC and what sort of maps or services you would like to see in the future.
Thank you. (send email to maps@tekkie.itc.nps.gov)
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Interactive Map Center |
Type of Content: |
Applications |
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NPS |
Publication Date: |
2002-07-06 |
Content Description: |
Content Summary: The NPS Interactive Map Center provides access to dynamic maps of the park system. Use the Map Center to find maps that meet your specific criteria and then generate custom maps to print or download. Maps are available for all the national parks and monuments but the site features park specific data for Yellowstone and Gettysburg. |
Content Purpose: The site is provided for educational purposes. |
Content Themes: |
Environment and conservation |
Content Status: |
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Completed |
Update Frequency: |
As needed |
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West Coordinate: |
-169 |
East Coordinate: |
-64 |
North Coordinate: |
71 |
South Coordinate: |
19 |
Coverage Area: |
United States |
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Theme Keywords: |
parks, monuments |
Place Keywords: |
United States, Yellowstone, Gettysburg |
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Vector |
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Other Constraints: Access constraints: None.Use constraints: None. |
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Virtual Team Tactics Directions ...
Adopt participative/peer learning
framework Virtual Team Tactics
Focus:
Provide Inspiration 3-D perspectives
on Integrating Anticipatory Thinking
Innovation - Invention - Insights & IMPACTS
with Decision Science & ethical information sharing . . .
RJB-Rev
2002-N23 at 06:55 CST
Objective
Enable & encourage "Anticipatory Thinking Integration" (ATI)
via ends-means forecasting cybernetics (goal-directed behavior)
with local, regional & global community impacts assessments (CIA)
Present
Situation Summary [See Below]
Proposed
Modified i4FTL Method
*A* Environmental (Global Impacts)
*B* Economic (Community Impacts)
*C* Political (Free Will Wildcards)
*D* Social Capital (TRUST Building)
Advantages (Benefits)
LooK
LISTEN
Learn / Relearn Lessons
Analyze
Synthesize
Disadvantages (Hurdles)
*1* Issues
*2* Barriers
*3* Challenges
Action
Adopt BLURred Critical (ABC) thinking framework with an alternative outcomes focus.
CommUNITY STEWARDship 2008:
I’m delighted to find creative signs of “sea changes”
in future thought leadership learning ...
The Survival Pages. "The Survival Pages;
From the Brink of Extinction" is the title of a performance at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis thesurvivalpages.blogspot.com/ - Cached - Similar pages
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The Survival Pages. http://thesurvivalpages.blogspot.com.
Blog Archive. ▼ 2007 (2). ▼ August (2). Quips; MamaEarthDance. About Me. mamaearthdance.blogspot.com/
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Primary source interviews?
David J. Welch is a retired engineer who pursued his interest in family and western history as a volunteer with the Oregon-California Trails Association. He has served as OCTA's President, as a member of the board of directors, and as OCTA National Preservation Officer since 2001.
For more information about OCTA Chapters, events and historic trail stewardship programs, Please visit www.octa-trails.org
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat maintenance of all computer and GPS related hardware and software,
.... maps and artifact records. Dir: David J. Welch. Feb-Apr 1981 ... www.iarii.org/Graphics/CV/McNeill.pdf - Similar pages
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File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat David J. Welch, National Preservation Officer, Oregon-California Trails Association, ...
... to map invasive weeds on refuges using GPS units. Website: ... cooperativeconservation.gov/team/FacesPlacesAppendix.pdf - Similar pages -
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Burkhart-Sculptor.com The amazing artwork of Brad Burkhart, Escultor del Corazon.
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Chris Deckker - Festival Producer - Earthdance.org
... Apply to: Brian Burkhart, 7th Wave Communications,
120 Tower Drive, Burr Ridge, Il 60527, ... gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=735
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