| A | B |
|---|
| Central Park, NYC | Designed by Frederick Olmstead |
| Yosemite Park | First U.S. National Park |
| Natural Regulation | Maintaining true ecosystems in parks |
| Biogeographical area | Area containing a park and beyond |
| Wilderness Area | Very wild, natural, roadless area (in theory) |
| Teddy Roosevelt | Established first wildlife refuge |
| Duck Stamps | Hunter's license that protects wetlands |
| Wildlife Refuge Uses | Drilling, Cattle, Boating |
| Asia, N America, Latin America | Regions with largest park growth |
| MAB | Divides protected areas into different-use zones |
| 1st International Park | Tanzania's Serengeti Park |
| Transboundary parks | Parks shared between countries |
| Great Limpopo Transfrontier park | Example of transboundary park |
| Landscape ecology | How ecological processes shape environments. |
| Shifting Mosaic | Opening for new plant species |
| Patchiness | mosaics of different abiotic and biotic conditions |
| Causes of Patchiness | Human disturbance and succession |
| Succession | Process of plants establishing themselves |
| Significant dynamic | Boundaries between environments |
| Corridors | Areas allowing movement between separated patches |
| Restoration | Bringing something back to a former condition |
| Rehabilitation | Rebuilding without complete restoration |
| Remediation | Cleaning chemical contaminants from a polluted area |
| Reclamation | manipulations carried out in severely degraded sites |
| Re-creation | Construction of community on severely degraded site |
| 29 percent | Total land area of earth |
| 11 percent | Amount of land used for agriculture |
| Old-growth | Forests in original condition |
| one-half | Amount of old growth forests |
| 80 percent | Amount of wood developed countries use |
| U.S., former Soviet, Canada | Produce most wood products |
| Japan | Import most wood products |
| Monoculture forestry | Use of one type of tree to replace diverse forest |
| Siberia | Has one-fourth of timber reserves |
| Redwood Forests | Most biomass in standing vegetation |
| Clear-cutting | Every tree cut regardless of age or size |
| Coppicing | Cutting of tree parts; encourages stumps |
| Selective Cutting | Small percentage of mature trees taken |
| USFS | US Forest Service |
| Fire | Important to have in many forests |
| Salvage Logging | Using timber from damaged forests |
| Indiginous Cultures | Possess valuable ecological knowledge |
