STAT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Taylor Grazing Act Of 1934, Civilian Conservation Corps, United States Department Of The Interior
23 Feb 2017
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: humans were primarily hunter-gatherers, wandering in small groups usually of less than 50 people. They consumed enough resources to survive, and produced little or no waste: consumed to survive, produced little to no waste, environmental impact was relatively low people in nature or a part of nature. Starting about 8,000-10,000 b. c. , humans began to domesticate plants and animals (1st agricultural revolution) shifting cultivation (or slash-and-burn cultivation), and basic subsistence farming, growing enough to live on, but little if any surplus. * over thousands of years this grew more extensive, leading to permanent settlements and thus a larger impact on the environment. * more reliable food source=more people=need for more food and resources. * increased degradation of the environment: grasslands, forests, soils, water supplies, etc. * the effects were seen over relatively small areas, but these spread as did the people and their agriculture.
