EVR Case Study
Due DATE March 30th
Enviromental Science Case Study
Lecture : http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/files/wetlands_value.pdf
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How many acres is Norman and Cathy’s farm? Is their farm a big farm by today’s standards?
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What are some of the challenges facing small farms? Why do farms have to get bigger?
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Why can’t Norman just buy more land?
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Aside from water, what else do wetlands have?
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Why is Norman worried?
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What is he thinking of doing? What bene t to Norman is there in draining a wetland?
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Does Angela know anything about wetlands? How do you know?
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Why does Ducks Unlimited Canada protect wetlands? What do they do to protect wetlands?
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What does Angela mean by “show them the money”?
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List some of the environmental, social and economic issues of this case.