Land Experiment

Name: _______________________________________________Date: ____________________________

You have just been awarded 100 acres of land. On this land you have valuable resources such as
forestry, wildlife species, and scenic views. Over the course of 10 years you will make choices about the
hunting populations, amount of people harvesting the timber, how much you sell to private individuals,
and how you manage your resources. Every year you will owe taxes based on the amount of land you
own. The person with the most resources left at the end of the class period wins.

Chart the amount of resources you have over the course of your years in the table below.

Year Land (ac) Wildlife Forestry Amount of Money

Species (pop) (amount of Views
acres)
0 100 50 75 25 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Notes:

Reflection questions:

1. What was the hardest part of this scenario?

2. What was the easiest part of the scenario?

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3. How does this relate to national parks?

4. If your land was a park what ways could you have been making money to afford your expenses?

5. If you sold hunting licenses, what observations did you make?

6. If you sold off land, what observations did you make?

7. If you sold timber harvesting, what observations did you make?