ISU: Conflicts in Public Land Usage: The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ECON 694.310

1. ISU: Conflicts in Public Land Usage: The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ECON 694.310

2. What are the Five Themes of Geography? Yellowstone National Park Style!

3. I. Location A. Exact Location is measured in latitude and longitude 1. Latitude lines measure distance north and south of the equator. 2. Longitude lines measure distance east and west of the Prime Meridian. B. Relative location is in relation to some other place. Activity: What is the exact location of the following place? Find it in atlas: Yellowstone National Park Now describe it in relative terms.

4. What is theExact Location of Yellowstone National Park?

5. II. Place: Place is described in terms of physical and human features 1. physical includes climate, soil, plant life, animal life, and bodies of water 2. human means kinds of houses, language, and transportation. Activity: Write a description of the place on the index card without naming it, then exchange it with the person sitting next to you. Can you identify the place from the description alone?

6. What makes Yellowstone National  Park, its own place?

7. Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so freeThe breezes so balmy and lightThat I would not exchange my home on the rangeFor all of the cities so brightHome, home on the rangeWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all dayOh, I love those wild flow'rs in this dear land of ours The curlew, I love to hear screamAnd I love the white rocks and the antelope flocksThat graze on the mountaintops greenHome, home on the rangeWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all day Activity: How does this song describe a place? What kind of place is this? What are its physical and human characteristics? What other songs do you know that describe places? Home on the range Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all dayHome, home on the rangeWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all dayHow often at night when the heavens are brightWith the light from the glittering starsHave I stood there amazed and asked as I gazedIf their glory exceeds that of ours Home, home on the rangeWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all day

8. III. Human/Environment Interaction Interaction between people and their environment Activity: List ways that people affect their environment. Are these harmful or helpful?

9. Grizzly Bear Kills Hiker in Yellowstone National Park A husband and wife's backcountry hike along a popular trail turned tragic when they stumbled upon a grizzly bear and her cubs and the 57-year-old man was mauled to death, Yellowstone National Park officials said. The couple was hiking along the Wapiti Lake Trail in the Grand Canyon area of the park, park officials told ABC News. They had walked about a mile and a half from the trail head when they saw the grizzly sow and her cubs. "The bear attacked the man and killed him," said Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash. The woman screamed out for help as the bear was attacking her husband. Nearby hikers heard the pleas and dialed 911. By the time park rangers arrived, the man was dead. "The initial indication is the sow grizzly was protecting her cubs," Nash said. "The investigation, as it unfolds, will help us determine if that, indeed, was the case." The park is not releasing the identities or the hometown of the couple. Human/Environment Interactions Current Events

10. Druska is fighting against the spread of Brucellosis* by bison to her cattle? What can she do? Martin is a cattle rancher outside of Yellowstone. He has lost calves to the YNP wolves, what should he do? Clyde is a businessman who relies on the winter use of Yellowstone for his livelihood.

11. Bison and Brucellosis* Issues: How do the bison affect the surrounding ranches and ranchers? How has the brucellosis affected the profits earned by surrounding ranches and the prices of their beef? *Brucellosis caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus, can cause pregnant cattle, elk, and bison to abort their calves.

12. How have ranchers had to adapt to the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park?

13. How many snowmobiles are too many?

14. IV. Movement: Movement of people, goods, and ideas technology telephone internet email media television newspapers radio transportation trucks and automobiles trains and planes ships

15. Activity: Find the origin of manufacture of as many items as you can on your body, in your desk or in the room. Examples: shirt, sneakers, jewelry, backpack, folders, pens pencils, and anything else you can find out the origin of manufacture. Make a list of the item and where it was made. How many of the items in the classroom can you name that have been manufactured in another country? What are the raw materials needed to make these items, the most likely place of production or manufacture, and the most likely form of transportation from the place of manufacture to the classroom? Standard: SS.7.4

16. V. Region: A region is an area of the world that has similar, unifying characteristics. The characteristics may be physical, human, or cultural. How do people from different climatic regions dress? What are some of the different foods do they eat?

17. 5 Physical Regions of the U.S 1. Pacific Coast and Intermountain Region includes mountains along coast 2. Rocky Mountains highest peaks in the U.S, above tree level 3. Great Plains flat grassland with little trees 4. Appalachian Mountains lower and less rugged than the Rockies 5. Atlantic Coastal Plain flat lowlands along the coast Activity: What region would Yellowstone National Park be?

18. THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

19. THE GREAT PLAINS

20. APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS

21. ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN

22. PACIFIC COAST

23. Location Place Human/Environment Interaction Movement The Five Themes of Geography Review Region

24. Reflections Activity: Take a moment to reflect and write two or three things that this presentation has motivated you to learn more about.