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Essay Instructions: 1) Provide background information: When was the agency established, what is its mission, what led to the agency's establishment, etc.
2) How is the agency structured?
3) What powers does the agency hold, and how effective is the agency at exerting those powers? From what sources does the agency derive its power?
4) Is the agency able to exert political pressure on the executive and legislative branches of government? If so, how?
5) What types of public policies is the agency responsible for implementing? To what degree has the agency shaped public policy in the past? What difficulties has the agency encountered when attempting to implement policy?
6) What political institutions are responsible for keeping the agency in check, and how do those institutions do this?
7) Should the agency continue to be funded as it currently exists, or should it be restructured or eliminated? If it should be eliminated, why? If it should be restructured, how would you propose to do that?

Sources I have:

Books -
1) National Parks For A New Generation, Editor: Robert J. McCoy (1985)
2) National Parks and Rural Development, Gary E. Machlis and Donald R. Field (2000)
3) National Park Service, William Everhart (1972)
4) Our National Park System, Dwight F. Rettie (1995)
5) Re-Greening the National Parks, Michael Frome (1992)
6) The National Park Service, Jenks Cameron (1922)

Internet -
1) http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps64788/Draft%20NPS%20Management%20Policies%202005.pdf
2) http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=gao&docid=f:d06631t.pdf

Thank you.

Essay Instructions: The textbook is based on the geology of the national parks in the United States and the "See It Side Bars" from the various chapters examine specific parks and their geologic importance. Start with your textbook

Physical Geology Across the American Landscape
J Renton, Coast Learning Systems
ISBN 9309

and/or the National park websites such as:

http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/project/home.html
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/tour/index.cfm


Instructions

Choose a National Park and write a 500-600 word essay that responds to the following guiding questions:

1.Name the park and describe why it is special.
2.Name and describe at least two key GEOLOGICAL phenomenon that are found within the National Park you chose.
3.Describe the processes at work that created the geological phenomena you selected.
4.Include your own ideas/opinions/experiences. For example have you seen a documentary, read an article or visited the park? Is there any concern/controversy involving this park? What is your viewpoint on it.

Include a minimum of two relevant cited sources (beyond your textbook and the suggested links above) to support the thoughts presented in your essay.


Your essay must include as follows:

-Two sources besides the textbook and suggested links above are included

-Sources are valid, correctly cited and relate to the content of the essay

-All of the topics in the guiding questions are addressed

-Assignment directions are followed

-A thoughtful examination of the topic is demonstrated and personal ideas/opinions/experiences are added

-Essay follows a logical sequence and has appropriate spelling and grammar

Essay Instructions: How can the general tourist who goes to Yosemite National Park help the sustainability of the parks natural environment, and natural resources so that visitors 50 years from now can still enjoy the park as is is today.

Essay Instructions: 1.
CheckPoint: UNESCO Research Outline - Everglades National Park

Resources: Appendix A and Developing an Outline Web site

Due Date: Day 5 Friday, December 10, 2010 [Individual forum].

Review the Developing an Outline Web site at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_outlin.htmlFollow the instructions when developing your outline for the final project.

Approach this project from the perspective of someone searching for funding to support preservation programs.

Develop an outline that identifies the ecological uniqueness of the plant and animal life in your chosen property and address the following:

o Describe the diversity of life forms found in the area.

o Describe the biological interrelationships among the life forms in the area.

o The human intrusions threatening the area.

o The protections that exist to safeguard and preserve the area.

o The efforts that have been made to further this preservation.

o What an individual can do to help preserve the diversity of the area.

Post your outline as a Microsoft? Word attachment. 1-2 pages


2.

Final Project: UNESCO Paper



? Resource: Appendix A

? Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper assessing the ecological property you chose for your final paper. Identify the ecological uniqueness of the plant and animal life in your chosen property and address the following:



o Describe the diversity of life forms found in the area.

o Describe the biological interrelationships among the life forms in the area.

o The human intrusions threatening the area.

o The protections that exist to safeguard and preserve the area.

o The efforts that have been made to further this preservation.

o What an individual can do to help preserve the diversity of the area.

o What additional measures to insure the preservation of the property would you propose?

o What will be lost if intrusion goes unchecked? Appeal to the biological diversity.



? Format your paper, in-text citations, and references according to APA standards. 1,500 words

? Post your paper as a Microsoft? Word attachment.