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| Who wrote MARKS OF HUMAN PASSAGE? |
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| Who wrote SHOULD CARS BE ALLOWED IN YOSIMITE? |
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| Who wrote A SECOND WORLD? |
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| Who wrote THE HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES? |
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| Who wrote A FOOTLOOSE IN DEMOCRACY |
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| Who wrote WESTERN EXPANSION ACROSS WIDE MISSOURI? |
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| Who wrote A CHRISTMAS CAROL? |
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| Who wrote FACTORIES IN LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS? |
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| Who wrote KTAADN IN THE MAINE WOODS? |
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| Who was a member of Parliament? |
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| Who compared Vesuvius to a Hawaiian volcano called Kilauea? |
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| True or False: Mark Twain thought Vesuvius was insignificant? |
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| True or False: Mark Twain went barefoot at nighttime |
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| Who joined in on a fight for the Dam of Echo Park? |
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| Who is friends with Bernard De Voto according to Harmon? |
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| Who wrote a biography about Bernard De Voto and Powell? |
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| What was THE MARKS OF HUMAN PASSAGE about? |
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| It was about Powell going down the Colorado River. |
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| True or False: Critics only gave Bayard Taylor credit for filling expectations of his mid 19th century readers, he only pleased the readers with the SECOND WORLD |
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| Who is associated with the Valley of Humiliation, Great Relief, Gothic Gallery, and Mammoth Cave? |
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| Who was involved with Echo Park in the 1950's? |
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| Who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 with WESTERN EXPANSION ACROSS WIDE MISSOURI? |
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| "Aesthetics, one may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one was felt it is left untouched." |
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| In his book, FACTORIES IN LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS, Charles Dickens was impressed with ... |
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| the women factory workers and their poetry. |
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| In his book A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens ... |
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| True or False: Charles Dickens asked readers to compare HAUNTS OF DESPERATE MISERY to FACTORIES IN LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS. |
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| Lowell will haunt in desperate misery |
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| "According to Jackson, accurately measured altitude of Ktaadn is 5300 ft. or a little more than a mile above level of the sea ... highest point in the state of Maine." |
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| Fact: Dinosaur National Monument is associated with all the rivers (and not Great Salt Lake) |
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| Who found dinosaurs for the Carnegie Museum? |
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| Who made the area with the fossils a national park so he could protect his diggings from the souvenir hunters? |
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| True or False: According to Harmon, Echo Park marked the coming of age of the conservation movement. (and not Ecology) |
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| Harmon stopped where he did because of ... |
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| Who painted KINDRED SPIRITS? |
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| Who are the two people in the painting KINDRED SPIRITS by Asher B. Duran? |
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| Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant |
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| Where is KINDRED SPIRITS a location of? |
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| Kaaterskill Cove in the Catskills of New York |
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| Who is the painting THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS by? |
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| Where and how much was the painting THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS sold for? |
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| Sold at the Sanitation Commission Auction in NYC for $25,000 to help fund the commission. |
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| Who painted the COURSE OF EMPIRE series? |
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| List the paintings in Thomas Cole's series COURSE OF EMPIRE. (1834-1836) |
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1. The Savage State
2. The Pastoral (Acadian) State
3. Consummation of Empire
4. Destruction
5. Desolation |
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| What plant was found by John Bartram and painted by William Bartram? |
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| Who started the Hudson River School of Painting? |
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| True or False: In 1820, 9/10 paintings were landscape paintings? |
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| Fact. In 1820, 1/10 paintings were landscape paintings. In 1880, 9/10 paintings were landscape paintings. |
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| Who went up the Hudson River and came back with 3 landscape paintings, all of which were immediately sold? |
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| "How can you buy the sky, how can you own the rain and the wind?" |
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| "This we know all things are connected ... web of life ..." |
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| "We love this Earth as the newborn loves his mother's heartbeat." |
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| Who was in disbelief that Americans could acquire land? |
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| Who was the first nature born artist naturalist from the new world? |
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| What plant did Ben Franklin bring back to Philadelphia? |
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| Who wrote TRAVELS, the first international bestseller? |
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| Who came all the way to port Hudson and found petrified cypress? |
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| Who created an Indian Paintings gallery and saw the loss of native people as a problem? |
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| What happened to George Catlin's Indian Paintings gallery? |
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| Catlin moved it to Europe and had success at first but then ended up going bankrupt. |
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| Who wrote LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF INDIANS? |
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| Who was born in Dunbar, Scotland, and went to school at the University of Wisconsin? |
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| Who was given credit for national parks? |
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| Who was a transcendentalist? |
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| Who got Gila National Forest started in New Mexico |
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| "All forests should be owned by all people." |
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| What was signed by Woodrow Wilson in 1913? |
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| Who was a painter of the Grand Canyon? |
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| Who got the Wilderness Act through Congress? |
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| Who wrote MIRROR OF AMERICA? |
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| What was MIRROR OF AMERICA about? |
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| Echo Canyon and the damn that was supposed to be built there. |
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| Which author did a series of addresses on national parks? |
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| "In wilderness is the preservation of the world." |
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| Who wrote from the easy chair in Harper's magazine? |
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| Who is the Natural Bridge in Virginia associated with? |
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| True or False: Section 15 of the township and range was set aside for public education. |
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| False. It was section 16. |
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| We have two survey systems in Louisiana, the township and range system and the ______________. |
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| Henry David Thoreau graduated from what university? |
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| Who did something with the Holy Cross? |
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| William Henry Jackson; photographer |
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| Who wrote letters and notes on the manners, customs and conditions of American ways in 1841? |
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| The forest service is located in what department? |
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| Department of Agriculture |
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| True or False: Sections 8, 11, 26, and 29 were set aside for future government use. |
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| Which of the following green lands is under the control of the national park service? |
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| How much was paid for the Louisiana Purchase? |
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| What country did we get the Louisiana Purchase from? |
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| What was the name of the first museum? |
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| Museum of Modern Art in NYC |
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| What was the Sierra Club's first book titled? |
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| Who wrote the SAND COUNTY ALMANAC? |
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| "One may lack words to express the impact of beauty, but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizen." |
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| What 3 prominent figures formed The Wilderness Society? |
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| Aldo Leopold, Howard Zahniser, and Bob Marshall |
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