Natural and Cultural Landscapes
Professor Laura Watt talked about the idea of landscapes and how they include both natural and cultural components.
Description
Professor Laura Watt talked about the idea of landscapes and how they include both natural and cultural components.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- How does Professor Watt define a landscape?
- How are landscapes “unwitting autobiographies”?
- What is meant by a cultural landscape? How are landscapes often both natural and cultural?
- How is the Yosemite Valley an example of a dynamic landscape?
- Describe how the human interaction with the environment impacted the landscape of the Yosemite Valley over time.
Additional Resources
Participants
Vocabulary
- Coniferous Trees
- Cultural Landscape
- Dynamic
- Ecosystem
- Human-environmental Interaction
- Meadow
- National Parks
- Place
- Preservation
- Pristine
- Yosemite Valley