White Cloud Persuasive Paper

WHITE CLOUDS WILDERNESS AREAS v N.R.E.P.A.

PERSUASIVE PAPER:

NREPA Ecosystem Protection and Biological Corridors

THREE WHITE CLOUDS WILDERNESS AREAS v N.R.E.P.A.

PERSUASIVE PAPER:

Having studied both The White Clouds Wildernesses (took effect in 2015) and the proposed Northern Rockies Environmental Protection Act (N.R.E.P.A.), you now have an opportunity to write a persuasive argument in support of bioregionalism and the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.

Since this is a persuasive paper, you must develop the ability to:

summarize the counterargument,

concede to the counterargument,

converse with your argument

create co-commentary: In essence, Consequently, ...

See #s 49, 50, 51, 52 in Writing Principles and Patterns for models of how to do this.

In addition, this paper must demonstrate a detailed understanding of the nuances of each land policy. (three quotes total: at least one from each side from the research page)

and must include three passages from Gary Snyder's book the Practice of the Wild.

Feel free to incorporate passages from Aldo Leopold's "Thinking Like a Mountain" and "The Land Ethic" as well.

CHOOSE THREE CONCEPTS TO DEFINE IN YOUR RESEARCH:

NREPA:

1. BIOREGIONALISM

2. BIOLOGICAL CORRIDORS:

3. WILDERNESS ACT: FIVE CORE ECOSYSTEMS PROTECTED BY NREPA

4. ENDANGERED SPECIES ACTPROTECTED: GRIZZLY BEAR, BULL TROUT, SNAKE RIVER CHINOOK AND SOCKEYE SALMON, TRUMPETER SWAN

5. THREATENED SPECIES: goshawk, pine marten,and bighorn sheep, the largest free-roaming elk herd in US

6. ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF NREPA

7. CARBON SINK FROM INTACT FORESTS TO COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING

8. HEADWATERS OF SIX MAJOR RIVERS PROTECTED: Columbia, Snake, Slamon, Green, Missouri and Saskatchewan Rivers originate in the Northern Rockies Bioregion

9. PREVENTION OF FURTER DEVELOPMENT IN THE BIOREGION: activities that eliminate the roadless and wilderness characteristics of the land and includes ski resort facilities and such activities as roadbuilding, timber harvest, mining, and oil and gas drilling.

10. SAWTOOTH WILDERNESS ADDITIONS

11. FRANCK CHURCH WILDERNESS ADDITIONS

12. CURRENT STATUS OF NREPA

THREE WHITECLOUD WILDERNESS AREAS:

1. Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act (C.I.E.D.R.A.): origins of the current wilderness designation. Focus on the compromises to motorized vehicle use in this nascent bill that stated in the wilderness designation.

2. WHITECLOUDS NATIONAL MONUMENT PROPOSAL REPLACES CIEDRA: WHAT IS A NATIONAL MONUMENT AND WHY WAS IT REPLACED WITH WILDERNESS DESIGNATION?

3. SAWTOOTH NATIONAL RECREATION AREA DESIGNATION AND ROLE

4. BATTLE OF CASTLE PEAK IN 1968

5. MOTORIZED RECREATION IN THE WHITE CLOUDS: See Blue Ribbon Coalition link

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:

-ONE PERSUAISIVE PARAGRAPH (#49-52): AT LEAST

-THREE QUOTES FROM SNYDER

-THREE CONCEPTS DEFINED FROM RESEARCH PAGE

HONORS LEVEL PAPERS: To earn honors, please add a paragraph on how Environmental History informs your understanding of NREPA v fragmented wildernesses in the WhiteCLouds. That is, how did John Muir lose the "battle over Hetch Hetchy" but win the war for wilderness by convincing Gifford Pincot---Chief of the nascent US Forest Service---to include wilderness designation as one of the multiple uses allowed in the National Forest system?

See this link:

https://sites.google.com/a/communityschool.org/us-american-environmental-literature-huss/battle-for-wilderness-muir-and-pinchot

John Muir's argument for Wilderness: https://sites.google.com/a/communityschool.org/us-american-environmental-literature-huss/battle-for-wilderness-muir-and-pinchot/muir-hetch-hetchy

Gifford Pincot's view of developing natural resources (building the dam in Yosemite):

https://sites.google.com/a/communityschool.org/us-american-environmental-literature-huss/battle-for-wilderness-muir-and-pinchot/pinchot-principles-of-conservation