# Module 29: Land use

<span style="font-weight: bold;">APES Sem2</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fire weather:</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where are we?</span>

- Unit 5, Ch. 10: Modules 29, 30: Land: public and private
- Next: Energy Unit 6: ch. 12-13 mods 34-40 (6 mods)
- Following: Unit 7: Pollution-health Ch. 14-17, mods 41-58 (17 mods)
- Last: Unit 8: sustainability, biodiversity Ch. 18-20, mods 59-66 (7 mods)

<div id="bkmrk-overview%3A"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Overview:</span></div><div id="bkmrk-the-biggest-challeng">The biggest challenges your generation will face are:</div><div id="bkmrk-sustainabilitypollut">

- sustainability
- pollution
- climate change
- resource constraints
- biodiversity

</div><div id="bkmrk-recall%3A-energy-%3Ewate">  
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Recall</span>: energy-&gt;water-&gt;food-&gt;culture  
In semester one, we learned about the building blocks of these concepts.  
In semester two, you will see them integrate more and more...  
  
</div><div id="bkmrk-consider%3A%C2%A0"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Consider: </span></div><div id="bkmrk-europeans-1492--%3E-th">Europeans 1492 -&gt; The New World  
Earth 2022 -&gt; Mars  
  
"go west young man"</div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sustainability 2025: Semester two </span>

1. Conservation/Land use
2. Energy
3. Pollution
4. Climate change

<div id="bkmrk-challenge%3A"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Challenge:</span></div><div id="bkmrk-how-can-you-describe">How can you describe a round staircase to someone without using your hands?  
How can you describe <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-weight: bold;">deep nature</span></span> to someone who has never seen it?  
  
</div><div id="bkmrk-national-parks%3A%C2%A0posi"><span style="font-weight: bold;">National parks:</span> positive, motivated by joy of the wilderness and nature</div><div id="bkmrk-sustainability%2Fclima"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sustainability/climate change:</span> negative, based on fear: "climate crisis"</div><div id="bkmrk-tito-jankowski-%3A-%22th">Tito Jankowski : "the climate crisis is the biggest business opportunity in the history of mankind"  
  
</div><div id="bkmrk-three-main-points%3A-l"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Three main points: Living together, thinking of forever...</span></div><div id="bkmrk-tragedy-of-the-commo">

- Tragedy of the Commons
- Conservation movement
- Urban Sprawl

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Random question: <span id="bkmrk-gps-ranching" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-weight: bold;">GPS ranching</span></span>-why is this closer to pre-contact buffalo herds?<div id="bkmrk--5">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-tragedy-of-the-commo-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tragedy of the commons</span> (old idea, new article) </div><div id="bkmrk-1968-garret-harding-">1968 Garret Harding KNOW THIS...</div><div id="bkmrk-an-old-1833-concept-">An old 1833 concept from farming villages, article updated in 1968 this to include rivers, streams, ocean, air...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy\_of\_the\_commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons)</div><div id="bkmrk--6">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-what-the-heck-are-%22c">What the heck are "commons"?</div><div id="bkmrk-what-are-some-exampl">What are some examples here at HPA of the "Tragedy of the commons"?</div><div id="bkmrk-drama-folks%3A-what-is">Drama folks: what is the root of the word tragedy? (truly random)  
  
Econ students may know this one:</div><div id="bkmrk-externalized-costs%2C-"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Externalized costs</span>, externality: shedding financial responsibility for your impact the the whole</div><div id="bkmrk-create-an-example-he">Create an example here in class: someone makes money doing something, the community pays the price</div><div id="bkmrk--7">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-japanese-battery-exa">Japanese Battery example (gruesome):</div><div id="bkmrk-e.g.-minamata%3A%C2%A0https">e.g. Minamata: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata\_disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease)</div>-----------------------  
<span id="bkmrk-conservation-movemen" style="font-weight: bold;">Conservation movement: Important peeps:  </span><div id="bkmrk-some-of-these-are-al">Some of these are also covered in your English classes, or they will be in college<div>  
</div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ralph Waldo Emerson</span>-"Nature" "behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present" 1837[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph\_Waldo\_Emerson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson)  
  
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Henry David Thoreau</span>-Walden "truth in nature and wilderness over the deceits of urban civilization". 1845[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry\_David\_Thoreau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau)  
  
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ansel Adams:</span> Photographer championed the National Parks: 1920-1980</div><div><span>[https://elab.hpa.edu/apes/videos/ansel\_adams.mp4](https://elab.hpa.edu/apes/videos/ansel_adams.mp4)</span><span></span>  
</div><div>minutes 0:00-8:00</div><div>  

- "More than any other artist of the century, he would help transform the meaning of "wilderness" in America and change what people thought and felt about their own land"
- "It's a place that you step into, and you don't know what's going to happen, a place that can surprise you, it's a place where you are small, where being small is not a bad thing, where being small is actually a wonderful thing"-Carl Pope, Sierra Club
- "...The world is beautiful, that humanity is part of this larger world, that the concerns of the moment are part but not separate from a larger system of forces that that connect us to all of creation"Jonathan Spaulding, Biographer

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Question</span>: How did his photographs change the awareness of the public? People usually care about what they know...</div><div>Teddy Roosevelt used this to create parks in the Southwest US...  
  
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Aldo Leopold</span>-environmental ethics, wildlife management, conservation, Sand County Almanac (Wisconsin) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo\_Leopold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold)  
  
<span style="font-weight: bold;">John Muir</span>-started the Sierra Club: "wilderness mirrors divinity, nourishes humanity and vivifies the spirit"</div><div>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Muir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir)  
  
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rachel Carson</span>-silent spring DDT (persistent pesticide, weakens bird egg shells), 1963:</div><div>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel\_Carson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)</div><div>VERY important person-why?</div><div>  
</div><div>...back to economics...</div><div>  
<span style="font-weight: bold;">MSY:</span> M<span style="font-weight: bold;">aximum sustainable yield:</span> max renewable output without compromising the collective future</div><div>See: native peoples: "seventh son of seventh son"</div><div>Also: "Sustainability = thinking about forever"</div><div>See diagram in chapter, greatest growth is at 50% of carrying capacity (there's that word again!)</div><div>  
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Protected lands:</span>  
<figure>![Screenshot 2025-01-09 at 6.32.52 AM.png](https://bookstack.kamuela.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-09/Y4DKr1URpBh5AOh4-screenshot-2025-01-09-at-6-32-52-am-vl8ylfhr.png)<figcaption>Screenshot 2025-01-09 at 6.32.52 AM.png</figcaption></figure><span style="font-weight: bold;">Public lands: </span>often victim of economic predation (e.g. Burma illegal logging)</div><div>Other side: NRDC and others, purchase lands to protect them from predatory practices (e.g. Amazon basin)</div><div>In the US: National Parks are one example of a national recognition of several things:</div><div>

1. Spiritual/psychological benefit to nature
2. Preservation of resources for future generations
3. Recreation
4. Habitat preservation for species (can be land, ocean, islands, etc.)

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See also Amboseli in Kenya, Serengeti in Tanzania (Tanganyika+Zanzibar), Kruger park in S. Africa (Afrikaans)</div></div>---

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