History of the Environment Questions
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Native Americans were so susceptible to the diseases of the Columbian Exchange primarily because:
Laura Ogden's Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades (2011) relied on data from oral histories conducted with gladesmen.
About 20 percent of U.S. fossil fuel reserves are on Native lands.
Ecotourism always involves the tourists doing environmental conservation work, such as tree planting.
Indigenous people and land in the Great Basin area of the American West
Which name do scientists use for the current era, to reflect the dramatic human impact on the earth in recent history?
Stefan Helmreich's ethnographic research analyzed ways in which microbes and human bodies are interconnected.
Where did we talk about elk being reintroduced?
What is the current world population, rounded to the nearest billion?
migrant workers in Florida's Everglades swampland
According to the video, ""Liberty: The Times that Try Men's Souls," in 1776, when a desperate George Washington asked Congress to help him recruit more soldiers by offering them land and money, Congress responded by:
Melissa Checker's fieldwork in Augusta, Georgia, showed how middle-class residents can make a difference by reducing household consumption.
Which anthropological category does Donna Haraway promote as a framework for interpreting the environment?
Domesticating animals and plants can be considered, in itself, an environmental change
The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation protests were an attempt to block the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Public lands in the US are categorized for use based on the managing agency. In general, Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) lands are used for
River water held behind a dam is best described as a form of ________.