Crater Lake History

The Great Salt Lake is located in the northern part of Utah. The lake has a high salinity and although it has more salt than seawater it is still able to sustain different species like birds or shrimps unlike the Dead Sea. The standard microbes that are a part of the ecosystem of the northern part of the lake in order of most populated: bacteria of at least two genera,Halobacterium and Halococcus; two algae ,Dunaliella salina and D. Viridis. The algae and bacteria live off each other by being the others nutrients. The reason for this is because bacteria produce ammonia, which algae uses for nutrients, while the organic matter that algae makes is used by bacteria as nutrients. Animals eat algae and cold temperatures during winter stunt metabolism

John Muir is arguably the most influential conservationist in American history. He was an active member in the preservation of the American wilderness from the late 1800’s until he passed in 1914. Muir is often referred to as the “Father of the National Parks” because of his efforts in the establishment of several National Parks. One of the biggest flaws of American history textbooks in need of change is the fact that they do not include the conservationists who have preserved the environment so today the same beauty can be see the way that they saw it. John Muir was involved in many American conservation efforts including the co-founding of Yosemite National Park, founding of the Sierra Club, and his overall career as a

The fight of the Duck lake started in the 1885 march 26 Fort Carlton was the main Hudson bay supplier. David Louis Riel and his provisional government at Batoche wanted to take over Fort Carlton ( in Saskatchewan). Between Fort carlton and Batoche was Duck lake store that had guns for the mounted police and Riel's people if a war broke out. Duck lake the war or battle happened by mistak. March 26 1885 was when the battle of duck lake started but on march 25 1885 Gabriel dumont wanted to take 30 mens to get some things from the duck lake store, but somehow the mounted police of the north west heard that the Metis were coming to take over the Duck lake store and Fort

Beginning in 1905, Roosevelt started his work in conserving the environment by making the United States Forest Service and National Parks. In 1908, he called together a meeting, “The National Conservation Conference.” Roosevelt also declared many pieces of land “historic” or “monuments” to conserve them. With his help, we still have many parks and forests that we can enjoy today.

The American Wilderness Coalition has created a system that preserves 110 million acres of land in the United States. It was made possible through The Wilderness Act that was passed in 1964. This was written by Howard Zahniser who was one of the groups own members. The Wilderness Society, along with many other conservation groups have been lobbying, which has created the passing of a handful of bills.

Of our 45 presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is not one that will be easily forgotten. During his time, his accomplishments wrought a change in the United States, and are still impacting us today, even long after his death. Among his many notable feats, many consider his conservation efforts specifically to be his legacy. He had a love and passion for nature, and he even became a permanent fixture of nature when his face was carved into a wall of rock, as one of the four presidents of Mount Rushmore. During the 1900s, “conservation” was not a word often thrown around in conversation. Today however, conflicts such as limited resources, conservation, climate change, and environment are words that have been on everyone’s lips at one point or

This country cannot work without mutual understanding and respect between the american people and the government. Listening to various ideals is part of the communication process and those who don’t support the protection of wilderness are choosing to stick with not supporting any bills that deal with the protection of the land. In the essay “Finding Common Ground on Protecting Montana Wilderness,” Rick Bass, an experienced author, advocate and resident of the Yaak Valley, states his views on the matter of protecting the wild lands from the timber industry and other members of the opposition while at the same time respecting their views.

John Muir, being a preservationist, makes him the most admirable choice because he believed in protecting wild places for the sake of people and the sake of the well being of the earth. Pinchot, Muir’s opposite, believed that conservation went hand in hand with development and that damming Hetch Hetchy would improve supplies in San Fransisco. The difference between conservationism and preservationism is that most times conservation focuses more on the needs of human beings. Preservationism is more focused on maintaining where the earth is at the time and the areas that are touched by humans. This idea helps to stop the invasion of human beings taking over open land and making them into farms and industries for developmental gain. This means that whatever we can preserve now, we can have in the future. A balance between the two would be difficult because of how strongly these opposing sides feel about the environment and what should be done in its best interest. I don’t feel that a balance is possible because a lot of times human needs are the reason for natures destruction such as knocking down forests for paper, and building dams to help increase a water supply. Not only do these human needs take away

During the Progressive Era, there was an effort towards protecting the environment, as well as managing America’s Resources. Moreover, At this point, naturalists along with foresters, known as people in charge of a forest, forged the populous advocating for better care of the lands. With this addition of more rules, and more people joining this cause the US successfully established a mean to regulate and manage our resources. To explain how the US successfully completed this there will be points on the different acts, the people who helped lead the movement, and how it affected the time.

progressives. Also, another event pushing the greater split in the Republican party was the Ballinger-Pinchot Disputes (1909-1910). Progressives backed Gifford Pinchot, chief of the U.S. Forest Service, in his charge that the

These park features include the 2,000 foot tall mountains with the elevation changing all throughout the park, many trees, the hike trails, different wildlife, different plant life, noticeable landmarks, and the massive lake that made the national park famous. As previously mentioned, the volcanic eruption and collapse of Mount Mazama left a huge bowl shaped cardena. This resulted in the creation of a very large mountainous land area around what was once Mount Mazama. Thus, creating the 2,000 foot tall mountains that are currently around the lake in the national park today. Along the mountains and around the area, there are trees like any national park out there. The largest tree in the national park is ponderosa pine. The hiking trails is another main draw for visitors to Crater Lake. Surrounding Crater Lake is the 33 mile rim drive that is the opening to the parks hiking trails. These hiking trails include Cleetwood Cove Trail, Crater Peak, Garfield Peak, Lightning Springs, and Mount Scott, which is the park’s highest point at 8,929 feet. The traveling time around Crater Lake is approximately two hours. Like any national park, there is many different types of wildlife and plant life around the park. The wildlife around the park includes fish, deer, and black bears. The plant life around the park includes wildflowers, pine, and hemlock. There are many noticeable landmarks in Crater Lake, including Wizard Island. Wizard Island is the small volcanic island in the lake of Crater Lake. It is a 2400-2500 tall volcanic cinder cone and is 767 feet above water. It was created after Mount Mazama erupted and collapse and was responsible for sealing the floor of the caldera. Finally, Crater Lake is most famous for the lake within it. This is mostly due to the lake taking up most of the national park. Because this lake is cut off from any other streams and

The Civil Conservation Corps was the first of several job programs intended to relieve the nation’s suffering through providing work as quickly as possible. Roosevelt, who was particularly fond of the program and personally designed many of its endeavors, aimed to preserve “two wasted resources: young men and land” (CCC Brief History). With a longtime interest in conservation, he sent thousands of

In the deep valleys of western Montana, USA, one of the largest temporary lakes in the world developed during the Ice Age—glacial Lake Missoula. It was formed by meltwater ponding behind a finger of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which extended south into northern Idaho. The lake was about 610 m (2,000 ft) deep near this ice dam, and 305 m (1,000 ft) deep over the current city of Missoula, Montana, after which the lake and flood have been named. It had a volume of about 2,200 cubic kilometres (540 cubic miles), nearly five times the volume of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes that straddle the border of the US and Canada. About forty generally evenly-spaced shorelines from this lake can be seen along the nearby foothills (fig. 1). These probably

Gifford Pinchot was the head of the Division of Forestry. He used a conservation policy that encorperated the scientific management of natural resources to serve the public interest. His work helped start the conservation the conservation movement in 1910. He exposed the decision of Ballinger to open up previously protected land for commercial use. HE was soon fired and caused Taft to lose votes in the next

Right from the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, there has been a fierce debate concerning how economic growth or development affects the environment or ecological setup of a country. The debate has its basis on whether it would be recommendable for a nation to concentrate on growing its economy while at the same time hurting or harming its ecological system. Naturalists like Pinchot Gifford, John Muir, Love Canal and Cuyahoga County always argued in favor of environmental preservation as opposed to concentrating all efforts towards developing the economy (Olmes 154; Miller 150-51). This paper will, therefore, discuss the struggle between economics and ecology specifically looking at particular events across the Twentieth Century. It will also attempt to explain the factors involved in the pursuit for change on the way people and the administration perceived the environmental conservation as opposed to economic growth.