Why is the Pacific Northwest region often referred to as Ecotopia by literary scholars and the popular press?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should know that this was because of a novel by Ernest Callenbach called Ecotopia. Ecotopia, meaning ecological utopia, was a linear region from San Francisco to southern Alaska that, in the book, attempted to secede from the United States. More recently, this same region of North America is referred to as Cascadia based on its environmental connections and its environmentally conscious sense of place.
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A) Britain: New England B) France: Quebec and the St. Lawrence River Valley C) Russia: Alaska D) Spanish: Texas E) all of the above are correct matches
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With an overabundance of elk, the next population in the Yellowstone ecosystem to be directly affected was/were ________
A) mountain lion B) wolves C) songbird D) beaver E) plant species