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