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| show | Biotic and abiotic components in any given area with a defined boundary. (Pond, lake, field, forest)
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| show | to sustain the patterns and process of ecosystems for the benefit of future generations, while providing goods and services for each generation.
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| show | 1987 UN's World Commission on Environment and Development Report defined sustainable development.
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| Stakeholders | show 🗑
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| Northwest Forest Plan | show 🗑
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| show | Multistep process- establish goals, create criteria, implement the plan, monitor the plan, evaluate the results, adjust the plan to make it better.
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| show | The densely populated urban core and the less populated surrounding region
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| Factors influencing urban development | show 🗑
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| show | fostered an interest in family and countryside Thoreau- Industrial revolution made the cities gross
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| Andrew Jackson Downing | show 🗑
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| Urban Pollution | show 🗑
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| show | = systems for human waste treatment, night soil was dumped in water or farms
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| miasma | show 🗑
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| show | English Lawyer who promoted the idea that disease is related to the lack of sanitation
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| Pasteur and Koch | show 🗑
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| Sand Filtration and Chlorine | show 🗑
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| show | St. Lois took Chicago to court because Chicago was polluting all of the water upstream to it was unusable by the time it got to St. Lois
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| Primary Sewage treatment | show 🗑
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| show | Elminates BOD (biological oxygen demand)with activated sludge or trickle filter technique
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| show | removes nutrients
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| show | Disposal= hogs, water, and landfills= rats and roaches
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| City Beautiful | show 🗑
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| show | Head of American Civic Association- pushed civic improvement
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| Myra Loyd Dock | show 🗑
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| show | NYC sanitary engineer, developed the white wings to clean up the city. = recycling
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| Sanitary Landfill | show 🗑
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| Air inversion | show 🗑
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| show | Established air quality standards and also later established emission standards for automobiles and power plants.
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| Urban Heat Island | show 🗑
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| energy budget= (l-r)S=H+(lambda)E+G | show 🗑
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| show | sendible heat loss/ latent heat loss
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| show | large pores (in soil they hold water and oxygen)
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| show | Urban soils are very compacted (have a high bulk density) and it limits the soils ability to absorb water
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| hydrophobic | show 🗑
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| Impervious surfaces | show 🗑
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| BMP | show 🗑
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| show | stores water in collection basins
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| Bio-retention | show 🗑
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| Street Tree Commissions | show 🗑
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| show | Plant small trees in narrow tree lawns where they will require less water (callery peary and flowering Crab)
-Disease free, pest free, pollutant tolerant (Norway Maple, little-leaf linden)
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| What trees should not be planted? | show 🗑
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| show | Honey Locust = good. Norway Maple=bad
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| Remnant forests | show 🗑
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| Value of Street trees | show 🗑
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| William Kent and Lancelot "Capability" Brown | show 🗑
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| Ecological Costs of the lawn | show 🗑
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| show | South facing, mid-slope, evergreens to the west to reduce winter wind and cooling, deciduous in the shouth provides shade
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| Heat Transfer equation= q=U*A*(deltaT) | show 🗑
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| show | Hand and horse drawn implements (sickle, cradle scythe, and horse drawn reaper)
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| Problems of overproduction of crops? | show 🗑
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| Farm Service Agency | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Eliminate acreage control on crops
2. eliminate store food surpluses
3. reduce distorting price support systems
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| Edward Faulkner | show 🗑
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| show | Strives to keep most plant material on the surfaces (Chisel plow and no-till) = Less soil erosion, cheaper labor, fewer trips. Increases herbicide and fertilizer.
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| show | The amount of living and dead organic matter in the soil= best indicators of soil quality and fertility
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| Value of SOM? | show 🗑
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| show | Source of nutrients, increases absorb-able water for plants, promotes clumping, increases yield for each 1% carbon
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| show | because it is a gas it escapes into the atmosphere
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| show | bacteria change NH4 into NO3 that can be leached
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| show | changes NO3 into N2 gas and N20 runoff
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| show | nitrogen runoff stimulates algae growth, bacteria feed on the algae and use up the oxygen.
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| show | pesticides destroy natural predators, pest recover more quickly
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| Characteristics of Weeds | show 🗑
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| show | Goosefoot, Redroot pigweed, Green foxtail, common ragweed, creeping buttercup, curley dock, canada thistle, field bindweed, quack grass, yellow nuts edge,
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| show | Studies the movement of organisms, nutrients, and energy between different landscape units
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| Riparian Ecosystem | show 🗑
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| show | act as sinks for nutrients from runoff and groundwater
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| show | Removes sediment in overland flow and nutrients in ground water
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| show | Farmers owning more than 500 acres of land can petition for tax relief, exemption from nuisance ordinances
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| Agricultural protection zoning (APZ) | show 🗑
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| Agricultural Conservation Easement | show 🗑
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