Across
- 1. Area set aside with the intent of preserving a large tract of intact ecosystem or landscape
- 6. Urbanized areas that spread into rural areas, removing clear boundaries between the two
- 9. Land dominated by trees and other woody vegetation, sometimes used for commercial logging
- 10. A document outlining the scope, purpose, environmental impact and alternatives of a development project (abbrev)
- 12. designation of land used for recreation, grazing, timber harvesting and mineral extraction
- 14. method of tree harvest that removes all of the trees within an area
- 17. degradation of the environments of the city that often accompanies migration to the suburbs
- 19. planning tool used to separate industry and businesses from residential neighborhoods
- 20. Tendency of a shared resource to become depleted if it is not regulated in some way
Down
- 2. set of principles for community planning that encourages the development of sustainable, healthy communities
- 3. Development that fills in vacant lots within existing communities rather than expanding into new land outside the city
- 4. An area similar to a suburb, but not connected to any central city or densely populated area
- 5. Federal Act that mandating an environmental assessment of a project (abbrev)
- 7. method of tree harvest that removes single trees or a small number of trees
- 8. Dry open grassland primarily used for grazing cattle
- 11. Cost or benefit of goods/services that is not accounted for in the price of the goods/services
- 13. An area surrounding a metropolitan center, with a comparatively low population density
- 15. A 1973 US act designed to protect species from extinction (abbrev)
- 16. burn set under controlled conditions in order to reduce the accumulation of dead biomass on a forest floor
- 18. dense residential and retail development near stops for public transportation (abbrev)