Decomp Research Paper

Colorado, known for the Rocky Mountains, is a gorgeous place to be. The wildlife filled rectangular state covers 104,185 square miles. In the black timber, it is dark and silent, not a sound to be heard. The pine trees are so thick it blocks most of the sunlight from entering, only to see about seventy-five yards in front of myself. The terrain is rough and almost straight up and down, but the elk love it because it is a challenge for hunters to see them. As I walk my favorite ridgeline in the black timber, I watch for the slightest movement and listen for the smallest crack. Watching thirteen-lined ground squirrels run around and chase each other can be humorous sometimes to watch them fall down from the trees. I wait patiently for the chance

Yet, Shaw concludes, “wild animals increasingly find suburban life in the United States to be attractive.” (Shaw) She explains the suburbs are ideal places for wildlife, citing there are 32 known breeding pairs of bald eagles in Virginia, a species once thought to be on the brink of extinction. She shows the deer population is at an all-time high, with a possible 25 million deer in the United States. She accredits two phenomena to the rise in wild animal populations; including natural reforestation and suburbanization, both of which create a haven for “edge” type wildlife (Shaw).

One threat to the Mojave Desert today is off-road vehicles. These vehicles end up causing damage to wildlife and cultural resources. Unfortunately when these vehicles are driven throughout areas such as Johnson Valley, they cause damage the wildlife on the protected land. These off-road vehicles are driven recklessly and for the most part the driver will not stop. Consequently, the plant or animal that was in the way of the drivers course is crushed and dies. When this happens in areas like this, the while entire environment can be affected. One single plant or animal killed by an off-road vehicle starts begins a chain reaction of resource loss. These off-road vehicles are actually churning up the soil and this causes damage to the plant roots

Redlining is the practice of denying services, either directly or through selectively raising prices, to residents of certain areas based on the racial or ethnic makeups of those areas (Wikipedia). Redlining refers to the actual act of drawing red lines on maps to denote where banks were not going to invest in because they are a liability to the bank. This leads into the term being used to describe the discrimination against other people normally due to race or sex. Redlining is a disgusting idea that reminds us of the old days of inequality and it is saddening that people discriminate against others because they have a different skin tone.

The first cooking show I watched was Chopped. Chopped is a competition show where contestants are given a diverse array of ingredients that are unusual and don’t necessarily go well together. Some of the strange ingredients the contestants were given included pink marshmallow peeps, a chocolate bunny, and also a lamb leg. The idea is to create a dish using all the ingredients you are given to make a dish. There are three rounds, appetizer, entrée, and dessert. Each round one contestant is eliminated or “chopped” from the competition until two contestants are left standing in the dessert round. The show is hosted by a man, Ted Allen and there were three judges, this episode there was a male and two females. The contestants were equally distributed in respect to gender, two male, two female, also

When the white-tailed deer show up in my backyard, it's like witnessing a direct link to an age almost forgotten. I freeze in my tracks, and I can't help but think about their unbroken chain of ancestors going back into the ancient past. These animals were here long before any settlers arrived from Europe. They were the hunted long before rifles replaced bows and arrows. They knew these lands when the waters were still clean and the air was still fresh. They knew these lands when there were no cars and no railroads. They were here before horses were brought to this continent from Europe. In their majestic silence, the deer have witnessed footpaths become trails, trails become roads, and roads become interstates. Their resilience is remarkable.

The book”Winter Chance Walking in Wolf Tracks” by Ron Gamer is a great book on how it ties to the environment. This boy 14 years old goes out on a ice fishing and camping trip overnight and gets lost he forgot to pack his food so he has none. His friend Seth works hard to try and find him. In this book and in real life it is very important to preserve the land around you and to protect our animal species and not be a poacher..

Rylee Pearce Mrs. Combs English IIII 29 Nov 2016 Organ Donation in the U.S.     In 2015 there were 122,071 patients waiting for an organ transplant, but only 15, 062 donors. The number of patients increases rapidly while the number of willing donors increases at a slower rate. In the novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman, there is a compromise between  pro-life and pro-choice, this compromise also benefits organ donation.  “...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened… but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.” (Shusterman 224).

Without any rules or laws in a society, humans cannot be controlled or changed, similar to cavemen in a caveman’s world. “You can’t change human nature without first changing laws”-Nurse Greta. Once people in the society change a law, the human nature will emerge and change to meet that law's requirements. Most people in a society will follow a law that has been set into place, therefore possibly change their human nature in a positive way. Similarly, in the novel, Unwind, by Neal Shusterman, the society created new laws about pro-life and pro-choice for the people, in which, abortion becomes abolished and unwinding came in pursuit.

The purge is a dreadful night where the government makes all crime including murder legal for 12 hours. A young girl, named Charlie Roan, whose family fell victim to purge participants on one of these nights vowed to get elected and put an end to the purge. Charlie gets her chance and is running a convincing campaign against the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA). The NFFA begins to see her as a real threat and creates a plan to kidnap her on purge night and ultimately eliminate her to make sure she does not win the election. The NFFA hire a neo-Nazi group to find and kidnap her by infiltrating her safe house. The groups plan is thwarted by a secret service agent who rescues Charlie and does his best to protect her throughout the night as they seek safety on the streets of DC. While searching the streets for safety they are captured by Russian tourists who have come into the country to kill for sport while it is legal. They are then rescued by two civilians whom are trying to protect their shop from vandalism. These civilians then lead them to the resistance, and underground group of people who are helping others who fall victim to the purge. The resistance has a hidden agenda. They plan on assassinating the head of the

My project topic is mountaintop removal. I hope to find the average amount of removal that has been done recently and to see if the people that are doing the work is concerned with what is happening. I hope to learn if many other people are realizing that this operation is occurring. I choose this topic because I thought it was interesting that the world is doing this to the earth and it is hurting it. I also choose this topic because I figured many people would have concerns on the subject and others would not. Before the video I watched in class I did not know that this was happening especially at mass amounts. Finally, I am interested to see if many religious people are involved

Imagine voluntarily getting into a cage with wild Grizzly Bears, and having nothing to defend yourself. This is what Timothy Treadwell did, except he upped the ante and chose to live alongside the Grizzly Bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska. The last 13 years of Treadwell’s life, he spent the summer months living with the bears. Grizzly Man is a film that was created by Werner Herzog. The film show contains content that Treadwell filmed himself, as well as portions filmed after his death, that have Werner interacting with people who knew Timothy very well. I believe that this film is very well put together and does a great job of showing Treadwell’s interactions with the bears, with minimal input from the narrator. I enjoy this part of the film because it allows you to form your own opinion of Treadwell and see what he thinks is best for himself and the bears. In this paper, I will be touching on how Treadwell’s actions throughout the film relate to writings done by; Michael Nelson, J. Baird Callicott, and Reed Noss. Some of Nelson’s wilderness preservation arguments fit right alongside what Treadwell is doing on his expeditions. Calllicot and Noss focus on wilderness alternatives and the impact that humans have on the environment.

In “Scared To Death” by Ed Yong, he expressed how the fear of wolves has affected the elk in Yellowstone National Park. The “Landscape of Fear” has taken a toll on the ecosystems that are present there. Ed Yong’s perspective on this matter is taken into great consideration by an ecologist named Laundre. Landre finds it fascinating as she looks at it as a perpetual state of apprehension. Ed Yong discusses how the “Landscape of Fear” affects the ecosystem and the relationship between wolves and elk i8n Yellowstone National Park.

It is early in the morning; the majestic Elk bugles in the distance. The sun is kissing the tops of the peaks with the most beautiful gold, and painting the clouds rose red. The men and women who enjoy the outdoors whether it is hunting or just hiking help make these types of moments possible. Hunting and the ecosystem is tied closely to conservation of land and animals. The articles of “Hunting and the ecosystem” written by the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Department (SDGFP), and “Facts and statistics on wildlife conservation” written by Roger Holmes, director of the Fish and Wildlife, touch on how hunting is important in the environment to keep a good balance in the ecosystem. They also point out how hunters do more than any other

Leave No Trace is philosophy of seven concepts that help minimize human recreational impact on wild lands. As wilderness recreation has become more popular, and the National Wilderness Preservation System has increased its wilderness lands from 9.1 million acres in 54 wildernesses in 1964 to 104 million acres in 628 wildernesses in 19991, the need for guidelines to help reduce degradation of these lands has become increasingly important. In 1979 Jim Bradley wrote about the need for an educational approach for managing recreation impacts instead of regulations that antagonize the public rather than win their support2. Teaching good practices is more effective than imposing strict regulations