Nature Conservancy Research Paper

Mark Fiege, the author of The Republic of Nature, was able to capture the past history through the lens of nature. Nature by definition is something so simple but so broad. We as the readers must analyze the history and the effects of nature of the United States, but we must first understand what Mark Fiege was able to see through the lens of nature, how he was able to define nature. We can see such effects in the chapters of Satan in the Land, King Cotton, and Nature’s Noblemen.

Some issues that will start to pop up as we continue to lose biodiversity are energy, food supply, pest control, erosion control, livelihoods, and the spiritual belief issues. Even though these occasions haven’t been a major problem in North Carolina, they have happened before. One recent issue that happened late of 2016 in November was the wildfire. This wildfire spread over nearly 50,000 acres of forest and human habitants. Because of human stupidity, many other humans and animals lost their homes due to this fire (WBTV, 2016). The loss of biodiversity that occurred in the wildfire was uncertain, but on logical terms, many animals were killed and plants were burned to death. Both humans and animal’s livelihoods were changed due to this wildfire and the spiritual belief of those people who were involved were unimaginable. Some people can’t argue against the fact that humans were involve with this fire because people were arrested for the cause of the fire and fully

After attending the “Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Ecosystem Sustainability Conference,” I learned about the ecological issues that Native Americans faced when individuals outside of their community appropriated land towards other means of production. Similarly, the speaker Delphine Jackson had discussed how her community was being disturbed by the construction of dams and highways, which destroyed the environment where animals lived and thrived. Additionally, the speaker Valeria A. Small explained the issues of their culture being impeded by an invasive plant that was established by non-native people. Getting their voices heard was not an easy task, for many of the people who created the newly developed roads and embedded the invasive plant species were seeing reality differently than the natives in the sense that the land was meant to be used

On May 15, 2016 me and around 20 other University of Washington students volunteered to remove invasive plants from Yesler Swamp. We started the day by meeting in front of the Yesler Swamp trial sign. After that, our guides started to introduce themselves there was three of them. Then, started walking on the trail to reach our designated spot that we are going to on. While we were walking Carolyn, one of the guides, started explaining what we are going to do. She started inform us about the different type of plants and which ones we should take out, invasive plants, and which we should leave, native plants.

Nature is a beautiful place for people to be active and enjoy quality time. My ecology project was to beautify the Morongo preserve by cleaning the trails by removing the intruding plants. I arrived at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve on September 30th, and turned in my signed waiver. A worker explained each of the jobs to me, in which I chose to remove weeds off the trail. I created a group which included Markina, Sierra, Sara, and Trinity. A worker guided us to the trail and helped us distinguish which plants to remove. I removed the invading plants by pulling each one by hand with a lot of force to make sure I removed the roots completely. Then I placed them inside plastic bags and disposed of them into a large garbage bin. Removing the invasive

Georgia has been invaded by numerous species that are known as harmful exotic plants and animals. It is so costly to attempt to control invasive species and the damages they inflict cost the United States annually an estimated $137 billion (Georigia Invasive Species Task Force, 2005). For example, in South Georgia there is an estimate of 7 million acres of Kudzu vine that originated in Japan and China. The damage that arises with the Kudzu vine is that it grows up to one foot per day and overgrows and shades out trees, covers houses, barns and road signs (Georigia Invasive Species Task Force, 2005). In order to make this a top priority some things congress needs to change is the revision of current United States policy on importation of live plants and animals and when considering, reviewing, or approving trade agreements they address specific invasive species. In addition, the implementation of prescribed burnings in areas with invasive species will help eliminate and control the spreading of such invasive species.

When the settlers arrived in the New World, their immediate thought was never to protect or conserve resources. Instead, over time as more Europeans made the trip west, natural resources depleted until Pinchot (#1, T) began the conservation movement. He would become the first leader of the future U.S Forest Service and go on to help protect and conserve areas of untouched forest across the country (Pinchot, 73). Consequently, Pinchot began a spark that would lead to Muir’s late impact and our current era that desires to form a sustainable system for human civilization. Since the start of conservation, Americans have slowly strived for sustainability and environmentally friendly practices.

The environment effected and continues to effect human culture and history. Thus, one cannot fully understand American history without exploring the immense role of nature in it. In the novel The Republic of Nature the author, Mark Fiege, utilizes environmental context to form new connections between previously thought to be unrelated historical events. Fiege chooses significant occurrences in America's past and then with the incorporation of nature, he reintroduced the events, providing fresh and innovative perspective, insightful explanations and provocative conclusions. Mark Fiege´s ultimate goal is to impact how the reader perceives the role of environment in history. Through further

This year the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary. Their mandate is to "conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein” in an unimpaired condition so that they might be enjoyed by present and future generations." I interviewed Park Service employee Daniel Craighead, an Occupational Safety and Health Specialist, to discuss how occupational safety and training supports the Park Services mandate.

The animal king (Marahambae) died of a rare disease that made him slowly deteriorate mentally and physically.Doctors tried to help but there is no cure to it. The animals in the Nevada state zoo are extremely upset about the tragic death. Many of the animals are furious and are running mad around their cages. The animals begin to escape their enclosures and helping others break free as well! You the zookeeper are the only one working because all your co-workers quit because they felt they were in danger. Your boss leaves it up to you to get all the animals back in their habitat so the zoo can reopen. You terrified or ot have to get the job done before the zoo is closed

Today was another beautiful day in the Redwood National Park. The park is in Northern California, near the coast, and very close to the Oregon border. So, it was a little breezy but, it's summer so for the most part it was quite warm and sunny. As the park ranger walked us through the Redwood Forest the birds were chirping the air was clean and fresh, there were a few clouds in the sky. It was the perfect weather for a walk through the woods. Today, my family and I learned many interesting facts about Redwood National Park, while we took a short tour around the park with a park ranger. We learned, when the park was established and why, why this park is a national treasure, and why national parks are so important.

Throughout the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th centuries, we saw an extreme shift in mindsets about the environment and how it should be managed. Iconic utilitarian conservationists, such as Gifford Pinchot, led this march to a more scientific approach to conserving land to produce maximum resources efficiently for the benefit of the people and country. Even after Pinchot’s firing as the first ever Chief of the U.S. Forest services in 1910, we would see his conservation principals integrated throughout years to come in pivotal environmental issues that would abrupt within the United States. Throughout these national issues such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, WWII and the Cold War, along with others, we would see the need for this utilitarian conservation movement idea to help progress us into the modern “green” era of scientific environmentalism. With these events, the inventory of federal land use and water resources agencies would be prompted and encouraged to develop and transform into more

There are 6.5 million species of land mammals. Wildlife biologists get the privilege of studying and spending time with these animals as their everyday life. I should be a wildlife biologist so I can study land mammals.

Another potential, but overall less effective, goal for conservation is naturalness, which is also defined differently across the literature. Crumpacker (1998) describes three components of naturalness, two of which the author argues are quantifiable. The first part of naturalness is the degree to which the system would change if humans were removed (Crumpacker 1998). The next two components of naturalness are the amount of cultural energy that is required to maintain the currently existing system and the number of native species that currently live in the system in comparison to the abundance of species that lived in the area prior to European settlement (Crumpacker 1998). Anderson (1991) describes naturalness as a continuum between complete naturalness, which would be an ecosystem virtually unaffected by humans, and complete unnaturalness, which would be an environment that is completely influenced by humans, such as a city. This scale of naturalness is established by assessing the extent to which ecosystems have been modified by humans and how much a damaged ecosystem would recover if humans were removed (Anderson 1991).

The main goals of wildlife conservation are to preserve and protect nature so that it will be around for future generations of both wildlife and humans to enjoy. It is essentially the attempt to protect endangered animal and plant species and their natural habitats. In researching two different vertebrate species in the United Kingdom, one that has benefitted from a population increase in recent years and one that has recently seen a decline in population, the similarities and differences in the various challenges that they face can be investigated. The proposed solutions to improve the situation for the declining species will then be discussed.