An Atlas of National Monuments and Fragments, MBH 331 and 338

This poster session has three main goals. First, the session explores geographic questions about public lands in the United States through a series of specific cases. Why do public lands tend to have funny shapes? Who passed... [ view full abstract ]

This poster session has three main goals. First, the session explores geographic questions about public lands in the United States through a series of specific cases. Why do public lands tend to have funny shapes? Who passed through the lands in the past and what traces of the past remain in the landscape today? What makes the land valuable to different groups of people and how do these values interact spatially? Most posters in this session focus on large National Monuments that were included in Executive Order 13792, the “Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act,” issued on April 26, 2017. Other posters focus on cases that concern private investment in land development. Second, the participants aim to illustrate principles of cartographic storytelling and analytic design by selectively mapping places at multiple scales, pairing these visual depictions with verbal descriptions, and incorporating these different components into a coherent poster layout. Third, the session aims to encourage reflection on the pros and cons of project-based teaching strategies, because the posters in this session result from an experimental approach to teaching cartography that used constrained projects in place of highly-structured lab problems.