Visualizing Environmental Science

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CHAPTER OUTLINE

Land Use in the United States 322

Forests 324

s Forest Management

■ What a Scientist Sees: Harvesting Trees

■ EnviroDiscovery: Ecologically Certified Wood

s Deforestation

■ Environmental InSight: Tropical Deforestation

s Forests in the United States

Rangelands 333

s Rangeland Degradation and Desertification

s Rangeland Trends in the United States

National Parks and Wilderness Areas 336

s National Parks

■ Environmental InSight: National Parks

s Wilderness Areas

s Management of Federal Lands

Conservation of Land Resources 341

■ Case Study: The Tongass Debate over

Clear-Cutting

CHAPTER PLANNER✓✓

❑ Study the picture and read the opening story.

❑ Scan the Learning Objectives in each section:

p. 322 ❑ p. 324 ❑ p. 333 ❑ p. 336 ❑ p. 341 ❑

❑ Read the text and study all figures and visuals.

Answer any questions.

Analyze key features

❑ Process Diagram, p. 324

❑ What a Scientist Sees, p. 327

❑ EnviroDiscovery, p. 328

❑ Environmental InSight, p. 331 ❑ p. 337 ❑

❑ National Geographic Map, pp. 342–343 ❑

❑ Case Study, p. 344

❑ Stop: Answer the Concept Checks before

you go on:

p. 323 ❑ p. 332 ❑ p. 335 ❑ p. 340 ❑ p. 341 ❑

End of Chapter

❑ Review the Summary and Key Terms.

❑ Answer What is happening in this picture?

❑ Answer the Critical and Creative Thinking Questions.