Ferdinand State Forest Essay

As early as 1800, reports of the Franklin area and its plentiful resources were recorded by several American and European Explorers and fur trappers; men such as John Jacob Astor and John C. Fremont, while traveling through the valley wrote very highly of the area’s potential. On passing through Cache Valley, John C. Fremont remarked that “a civilized settlement would be of great value here, and horses and cattle would do well where grass and salt so much abound.” It wasn’t until the late 1840’s when the valley became a potential area for settlement. Despite the various reports on the potential of Cache Valley and the Franklin area. In 1847, after hearing several reports on the prospects and benefits of Cache Valley from fur trappers

As America was first forming, there were many issues beginning to arise and quite rapidly. One of the most common of these issues were our forests. Many people took to our forests, illegally cutting down trees and taking valuable resources as well as butchering many animals throughout the region. Eventually when this problem worsened, the state formed a group of men that would protect these forests and wildlife from harm. Preserving them for future generations to see and explore rather than see exploited lands with nothing left. These men that began it all, were “First called “Fire Wardens” and then “Fire Patrolmen” today we know this proud force of men and women by their contemporary title of New York State Forest Rangers.” (New York State Forest Rangers. Pg 14.) These men and women protect our lands from those that wish to drain it without a second thought.

The geologic timeline and events that occurred in the Northeast would have had a major impact in the creation and movement of wildlife, topography, and biodiversity throughout the region. When looking at the Northeast through the lens of a bioregional food shed the largest impact on the biological makeup of the Northeast would have occurred between the early 1700’s through modern day. In that span of time, “…the Northeast would show forests which had occupied 90% of the landscape in 1700 occupied less than 30% in 1900.” Forest ecology is arguably one of the important factors when looking at the long-term history and evolution of one’s bioregion. When European settlers made their most significant landfall with the intent on permanent colonization in the Northeastern territory of the United States they would have been stepping on to ground that was rich in biodiversity. The Northeast was a region plentiful with “great forests of American beeches, maples, birches, eastern hemlocks, and spruces from New England to northern Pennsylvania, and oaks, hickories, American chestnuts, and pines from Maryland through Ohio.” In terms of wildlife and game that would have provided food for the European settlement they would have had access to the harvest of “white-tailed deer, beaver, wild turkey, passenger

We’re all here to build upon our success! Our conference this year features a program with plenty of information, great topics, and entertaining speakers. Sessions revolve around our history, our bright future, merging historical and “green” building, and the final implementation of the Cabin Fee Act. Speakers will be discussing how drought is affecting our nation’s forests, historic preservation of cabins, getting involved with your cabin community, and how to historically document your cabin for future generations.

In June 1864 the Yosemite Land Grant was signed by Abraham Lincoln, which deeded 39,000 acres of the Mariposa Big Tree Grove and Yosemite Valley to the State of California (Hawken 40). It was an unprecedented piece of legislation, having almost universal support from private business, environmentalists and Congress. Sparked largely by the de-barking of “The Mother of the Forest”, one of the oldest sequoias in Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove, several years earlier (Hawken 39). The Yosemite Land Grant was the first piece of legislation founded on the principle that nature needed to be preserved and protected from humans (Hawken 40). After nearly a century of clearing many forests on the East Coast, affording protection to land on the West Coast was a novel concept.

To understand where the motivation and passion to protect the environment was developed, one looks to the rapid deforestation of East Coast old-growth forests at the turn of the century. “As Gifford Pinchot expressed it, ‘The American Colossus was fiercely at work turning natural resources into money.’ ‘A

After a thorough search of the Belanglo State Forest by authorities that resulted from the discovery of the bodies of Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters, no other bodies were found. The police believed it was an isolated case and continued to search for information on the murderer of these two girls. The intense media coverage had left locals worried about what else could be found in the vast state forest which led local man Bruce Pryor to find another body. On the 5th October 1993 over a year after the discovery of the first two bodies, Bruce Pryor discovered a thigh bone and a skull which he brought to police who returned to the area and found yet another body. Three days later the police confirmed that one of the victims was Victorian backpacker

The wilderness and forests need to be saved for the future generations, and a sort of “wilderness bank” needs to be formed in order to keep the reality of the wilderness alive and keep mankind grounded to the earth.

One of America’s greatest conservation achievements is the Wilderness Act of 1964. Fifty-two years later, this act has a legacy to withhold. A legacy that meant something in 1964 and remains the same today: to protect unspoiled land. Even though, through this act millions of acres have been conserved, the key word is continue. That is why America should pass laws to preserve the wilderness before developers spoil them.

“The Emerald Forest” is a movie produced by John Boorman in 1985 and based on a true story in the Brazilian Rainforest. The film is a about Tommy, a young boy, quickly and silently taken away by a tribe in the Amazon called, The Invisible People. His dad then, spends 10 years searching for him and eventually succeeds after running into a war party with another tribe called, The Fierce People -enemies of the invisible people- who pursue him. They finally meet by chance, but the boy refuses to go back to his original family and civilization and explains that he belongs to the forest now. The father couldn't understand the choice made by Tommy and asks the chief of the tribe to order the boy to

Upon walking ‘into’ Into The Woods one would say the mood was set well. The red curtain in front of the proscenium stage, the orchestra tuning their instruments, and a peculiar man standing on the side of the stage. I was prepared for the show, a water bottle and plenty of cough drops to get me through the 2 and ½ hours. What I was not prepared to see was the obvious struggles they were having that day with their own cues.

Yellowstone National Park is one of the largest and oldest national parks in American history. Yellowstone was the first park to be protected by private investment on March 1, 1872, and the first to be put under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service in 1918, no doubt due to its unique and inspiring landscape and geothermal features. In fact, Yellowstone National Park is home to half of the world’s total hydrothermal features. These awesome attractions draw an incredible amount of visitors, an average of two to three million each year, to Yellowstone’s immense landscape. The park has a total size of 28,125 square miles, is found in three distinct states, and is considered to be one of the largest

Through strictly regulated hunting we have reintroduced and repopulated various game species into areas where they were previously wiped out due to extremely excessive hunting by settlers. In the early 1900s all of Indiana’s whitetail deer were virtually extinct. By the 1930s whitetail deer were beginning to be reintroduced into Indiana. In just 20 years after initial reintroduction the population was at a sustainable level so that regulated modern hunting programs could begin. Conservationism has been a necessity to the ecology of the United States and many other countries around the world. The U.S. Forest Service by itself manages 193 million acres of public land nationwide or roughly 8% of the total land in the United States. The management of this land would not be feasible without the funding hunters provide through licenses, tags, and stamps. The 193 million acres does not include any public recreational land on the state level. There is 2,260,380 acres of public hunting land in all the states

It was a calm, overcast day, and I found myself resting at the side of a large oak tree, admiring the beauty of the woods that surrounded me.

I am writing to you in regard to the Bridger -Teton National Forest. It is “the largest intact ecosystem in the lower 48 United States. Offering nearly 1.2 million acres of designated Wilderness, over 3,000 miles of road and trail and thousands of miles of unspoiled rivers and streams.” (USDA Forest Service)