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Areas of Practice
Lesson 15: Parks, Recreation, and Open Space
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| When did the first National Park created? | Yellowstone in 1872 |
| John Muir | Advocate for national parks. Helped start the Sierra Club. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Created five national parks and signed the Antiquities Act |
| Antiquities Act | Was passed in 1906. First law to establish that archaeological sites on public lands are important public resources |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | During the depression dramatically improved the national parks through the Civilian Corps. Helped with the expansion of the National Parks service. |
| Pocket Park | Small park accessible to the public |
| Linear Parks | Significantly longer in length than in width. E.g. New York & High Line Park |
| Neighborhood Park | Small in size, fewer than 5 acres, and typically within walking and bicycling distance from most residents |
| Community Park | Serve and area from one to five miles and are typically 20 to 100 acres in size |
| Regional Parks | Land preserved on account for its natural beauty, historic interest, & recreational use. E.g. McDowell Mountain Regional Park |
| Scenic Resources | Landscape patterns and landscape features that are aesthetically pleasing and contribute to the distinctness of a community or region |
| Viewshed | Area visible through line of site from a location |
| Wildlife Corridor | Linkage that joins two similar wildlife habitats |
| Conservation Easement | Legal agreements between a property owner and a land trust or organization which the property owner agrees to place restriction of the use of the property to protect natural resources |
| Transfer of Development Rights | Zoning technique used to protect farmland and other natural/cultural resources by directing development to area planning to accommodate growth. |
| Organics Act of 1916 | Establish the National Parks Service to manage national parks and national monuments |
| Historic Sites Act of 1935 | Sought to organize federally owned parks, monuments and historic sites |
| Wilderness Act of 1964 | Created the National Wilderness Preservation system. |
| Wilderness Area | An area of undeveloped Federal land retailing its primeval character and influence without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions. |
| National Wild and Scenic River Act of 1968 | Seeks to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural and recreational values in a free-flowing condition for the enjoyment of current and future generations |
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