Month: April 2020

4a. What communities of people, interest groups, demographic types, or geographic areas tend to gain the most from policies that address problems directly related to your natural resource within your selected jurisdiction? How and why so for whom? -One group of people that would gain the most from the 2017 ORS 543.017 policy are those… Continue Reading Step Four

1. What is your team’s selected natural resource? Hydroelectric Energy 2. Why do you care about this resource, if you do? We care about this resource because hydropower is an efficient way to generate electricity without the production of fossil fuels such as natural gas that is associated with traditional power plants. 3. What is… Continue Reading Step One

2a. What is a good example of a dominantly affective response to primary sensory or emotionally cognitive perceptions of your natural resource? This would be a strong emotional or aesthetic reaction that makes people care about it, or not. -Dams block passageways from both steelhead and salmon which among other things, majorly decreases fish numbers.… Continue Reading Step Two

First, you need to identify just one significant, existing statutory policy in law within your identified jurisdiction that seeks to affect your natural resource in one way or another. It might help if you found a law that is currently actively being enforced and contested, but a dormant or non-controversial law can also work. It… Continue Reading Step Three

THE WILDERNESS ACT OF 1964 https://www.justice.gov/enrd/wilderness-act-1964 1). Biographical overview – David Brower was an American environmentalist and mountaineer who founded various environmental organizations and nonprofits including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth, and the Earth Island Institute to name a few. Browers’s passion for the environment and mountaineering in the… Continue Reading Natural Resource Historical Figure: David Brower