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    purview of the Department of the Interior. Designations within the National Park System include: * National Park * National Historical Park * National Recreation Area * National Parkway * National Monument * National Memorial * National Seashore * National Trail * National Preserve * National Battlefield * National Lakeshore * Affiliated Areas * National Historic Site * National Cemetery * National River * Other Designations Information on the National Park and National Monument designation are detailed

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    Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey begins in the area surrounding Moab, Utah. He discusses his intense love and adoration for the land. This theme of laying out the land for the reader continues from Chapters 1-5. It is apparent the Abbey adores nature in its purest form. Abbey rarely has visitors of the human kind, he is more often visited by snakes, deer, birds, and other wildlife than the parks superintendent, the chief park ranger, and a few tourists here and there. Abbey finds himself a little

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    Our plan has the United States Department of Interior banning all commercial fishing in Marine Protected Areas,and establishing and enforcing regulations for the recreational use of these areas. The practice of bottom trawling will be banned in U.S. ocean fisheries. This plan will decrease the worry of losing all our fish in the sea. We are harvesting more fish that can be replenished, so banning the practice of bottom trawling and other fishing practices in Marine Protected Areas put fish like tuna

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    is the largest estuary in the United States. It is located on the eastern seaboard, with the upper portion of the bay in Maryland and the lower portion in Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay is vital to the ecology and economy of both Virginia and Maryland. There are more than one-hundred-fifty rivers that flow into the bay. Within the Chesapeake Bay, there are around 2,700 species that live there. Needless to say, this is a very important ecosystem that needs to be protected. The Chesapeake Bay Preservation

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    A historical context of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument: United States President, Barack Obama, declared the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument the largest oceanic reserve system in the world through an expansion in protected territory by a presidential proclamation on September 25th, 2014. The reserve system originally was formed on January 6th, 2009 by a proclamation signed by President George W. Bush. The ocean ecosystems now under protection are to the south

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    Should the United States Drill for Oil in the ANWR? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or ANWR is one of the largest areas of protected land in the world. It encompasses areas of Alaska and Northwestern Canada. The area was initially set aside by President Eisenhower in 1960, because of the area’s value to the environment. What with it being part of the shrinking tundra, and the only protected tundra in the United States. However, despite the environmental significance of the ANWR to the surrounding

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    fear and admiration among humans. This fear, along with ignorance, inspired a movement to eradicate the gray wolf from the lower forty-eight states in the early 1900’s. By the early 1930’s, gray wolf populations had been completely eliminated from the Rocky Mountains (Bangs, et al 147). In 1973, congress passed the Endangered Species Act that protected any wolves that naturally migrated from Canada (Bangs, et al 147). Public opinion began to shift and the value of the wolf on the ecosystem was

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    environmental problem, the forest resources in the United States have been (and will continue to be) depleted. In

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    fashion or civil rights change over time, tourism changes as well. Outdoor recreation is one subcategory of tourism that has seen many changes. The National Park Service is a public agency that is responsible for protecting public lands in the United States. The first national park was established in 1872 and the National Park Service was founded in 1916 (Frequently, 2017). Since then, the number of parks and number of visitors to the parks has increased tremendously. This increased number of visitors

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    Most people in the United States today are familiar with the idea of hate crimes, and there are. Of course, those who have been subjected to them. Simply put, a hate crime is determined to be, “… a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.” (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2017) These prejudicially-based crimes target victims who belong to, or increasingly, are perceived to belong to, a particular group of people, such a race; a religious affiliation; gender

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