Presently Alaska is the forefront of natural resources quintessential to the economy of the United States. In 1867, the United States purchased this land, rich in resources, from Russia for a substantial $7.2 million. The majority of the United States was against this decision because there was no information that the land had any significant value. However, in 1896 a large influx of Americans began to flock up into the Klondike. This would be known as the Klondike Gold Rush. Alaska was only a place on the map until the Klondike Gold Rush brought many people seeking fortune to settle in this expansive wilderness. Since then the government, corporations, and the public have seen Alaska as both the land of opportunity for natural resources and …show more content…
The dam is exactly as it seems the dam stores minerals unused by the mining company. The minerals are considered to contain copper and other toxic material. If the dam were to break the effects would be catastrophic. Since 1889, there has been a large majority of dam failures in the United States. The most devastating dam failures happen to be the Kelly Barnes Dam, Teton Dam, Baldwin Hills Reservoir, West Virginia slurry dam, and the Johnstown Dam. Each of the failures made a murderous imprint in every newspaper and story. Unfortunately, people lost their lives to each of these events. What’s to say that the Pebble Mine Dam wouldn’t do the same? The Pebble Mine Corporation states that they have engineered a dam that is able to withstand size 7.8 earthquakes. However, studies show that the area has had earthquakes up to 7.9. Although the Pebble mine states that the fault along Alaska has been dormant for ten thousand years, flooding from heavy rains is also a high possibility and should not be disregarded from the final decision. To ensure that the dam is safe well into the future supervision would have to be set on the dam …show more content…
Any negative impact on the salmon would spark a chain of events destructive to this ecosystem. The salmon’s prey would flourish without the schools of salmon and the predators of the salmon would see a decline in population due to a shortage of food. Seafood businesses would begin to see a loss in supply and demand would grow until the inflation costs of seafood would have a substantial negative impact on the economy. The most destructive output from the mine would be the copper minerals. If the dam were to rupture copper minerals would gradually find their way into streams and riverbeds. At large quantities, the copper minerals are toxic to living organisms. Even at small quantities the toxin would affect the smell of the salmon. Salmon are unable to find their way back to their spawning grounds without their sense of smell. Without their well-known spawning grounds, the salmon frantically lay their nests of eggs in unknown environments. These unknown environments can be dangerous to the salmon and Alaska could see a high percentage of unsuccessful eggs. Thus beginning the negative chain of
It is well known that industrialization in America started in the east. However, the gold rush was the reason why California industrialized much faster than the east. With the technological improvements, that the gold rush demands it helped California industrialize much faster. James Marshall first discovered gold on January 24 1848 on the south fork of the American river. A not so well know part of California history is that James Marshall was not the first person to discover gold in California. Francisco Lopez was the first documented gold rush in California. It is less know because right after Lopez had discovered gold the war between Mexico and US had begun. Moreover, like everyone knows Mexico lost and lost California and other territory to the US. After James Marshall had found gold and after everyone had started to hear the news, few people started rushing to the minefields. The gold rush fever had not started yet because many people were hesitant. It wasn’t until president, President Polk at that time, confirmed that there really was gold found in California after the announcement by Polk was heard. Massive amount of people from all over the world rushed to California. States were not the first to hear about the news. Actually, people in Hawaii were the first to find out. As trading ships were leaving the San Francisco port on their trips across the pacific. Was when the Hawaii found out about the news? When the states
3.5 million miles of water run throughout the United States; and since the country’s conception, over 80,000 dams have impounded 600,000 miles of these waters [1]. Dams were originally constructed to provide water to towns and establishes energy sources for mills and later hydroelectric plants. Because these dams were constructed decades ago, they’re reaching a critical point of obsoleteness where they cause more harm than good. Dam removal is increasingly popular across the country to address the ecological problems including habitat loss and sedimentation, despite potential for downstream harm, removing dams is more environmentally and economically cost effective than upgrading them. The Marmot, Glines Canyon, and Elwha river dam removal projects each highlight different challenges of dam removal, but overall
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In the text, “Klondike Gold Rush” and “A Woman Who Went To Alaska”, both share many different things. In this case their point a view was different. That is what I will be discussing today!
Have you ever thought about being rich? How about finding gold where you least expected it to be? In the passages “Klondike Gold Rush” and A Woman Who Went to Alaska and City of Gold each author or narrator discusses the same topic which was that people went out on a challenging trip to find gold, but only some people were successful. In the two passages and the one video the authors or narrator were using different points of views. Each person’s point of view shapes the reader's understanding of the miners’ lives is because each person has there own situation, so they have to act and talk differently than some of the other characters.
Despite low expectations, Alaska was rich with natural resources such as lumber, gold, copper, and other metals. Oil and natural gas were discovered in Alaska, which continues to fuel battles between conservationists and energy and mining interests. The discovery of gold in Alaska in the 1890s led to a gold rush. It also encouraged the development of Seattle as a major port.
Dams are harming salmon in so many ways. They’re taking away their habitat. The salmon’s access of the rivers are suddenly gone. In the Northwest, a large portion of dollars are spent in a year to fix all the damage to the salmon, caused by the dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers. For decades, there have been numerous debates about taking down these dams to help the fish, because they’re part of the endangered species act. There are biologists that notice how some salmon are trying to survive in rivers located in the Northwest that have been changed by dams. These fish are simply delaying migration back to the sea, growing larger in order to survive their trip back to the Pacific Ocean, and going back to their birth streams at higher rates than ever. All these salmon could be saving themselves instead of people spending billions of dollars. The consequences of this could be very important. The recovery of salmon
To simply answer the question, the answer would be that they had very little success in creating their ‘National Community’. Between the years 1933-39 the Nazi party set upon an idea of creating their own race of racially pure Germans, an Aryan race. And to do this they had to remove all the people they had thought of as unfit and against what they saw as the Aryan race, and create a Volksgemeinschaft. Volksgemeinschaft was a people’s community, where everybody was equal in race. The Nazi party was prepared to go to extreme lengths to ensure that they got this racially pure race, killing unfit Germans was a solution.
In A Woman Who Went to Alaska, it takes a differnt perspective of teh Klondike gold rush as to focusing on
November 1898, and the Gold Rush in the Yukon was in full swing. On the banks of the Klondike river, thousands of prospectors stood and knelt, panning for the ever so elusive dust that seemed to have some sort of mind control, using shine and luster to call people to it in a mad paroxysm . Here, a tiny force of mounties attempted to keep the peace in Dawson City. In the South, the Long Depression was in full effect, and the gold rush offered an opportunity to transcend its economic effects. Almost overnight, the city had gained 30-40 000 residents, and with all the lights from tents and campfires, the city earned the name of the City of Lights.
It seems that the United States is approaching a crucial moment both for the real economy and for the financial crisis that caused this severe recession. Of course, this is good news that comes after many months of bad news, but we must continue to take into account how extremely difficult it is to forecast the behavior of the economy and financial markets during the crisis. The general predictions have been wrong again and again, and unexpected and even unprecedented events have followed one another closely. A cautious optimism should be the order of the day. We fear that the recent reactions of financial markets and some analysts reflect too much optimism without paying sufficient attention to uncertainty. Public policies should continue
Gold is a very precious metal that with in any community is pressed very highly. To a surprise to several, after the United States won California from Mexico. A land owner had found several pieces of gold along the river bed of the San Francisco. Circumstances lead to this land owner not wanting to reveal this information to the world. Nevertheless, the information was spread so began the Gold Rush in California. This magnificent event gave light to great change but was it the right move for progress and growth for the new founded country the United States. Growth in my eyes is defined as the increase of wealth among all the population that is living in a general area. Wealth should be defined as in a way where a family can live with good
With human development, industrial pollution and other factors all contribute to the deteriorated condition of the river, which makes it difficult to determine the dams’ environmental impact in isolation. CITE That said, the current operations of the dam hamper and potentially prevent environmental improvement of the Colorado. In order to preserve some semblance of the Colorado ecosystem, man must restore the natural processes that created the ecosystem. The real question is how to do that, whether via dam decommission or a less extreme policy change.
The California Gold Rush was an event that lasted from January 24th, 1848 to 1855. The event was driven mainly by the large quantities of gold reserves that were discovered in the soon to be US state of California. This event caused many Americans to move from the eastern states and middle states to California with the hopes of finding gold. In this paper, I will analyze the economy at the time the gold rush started and attempt to answer the question of why individuals found it necessary or advantageous to move out to California in pursuit of gold. I will also consider personal accounts and editorials written to gain a more personal narrative of the conditions people were experiencing as well as their mindsets in deciding whether to move to California for the gold or not.
The discovery of the California Gold Rush took place by chance. Mainly the amount of the world’s gold is deep underground and embedded in hard rock. Unlike anywhere else in the world at that time the gold in California was simple to dig up, free for the taking and required little tools to acquire any gold. Only things required: a pick or shovel and a pan to shift out the gold from the rock, sand and debris. The Gold Rush affected not only California, but the outcome of the nation. Creating the expansion of our nation into Western America and California. Hundreds of thousand Americans and foreigners moved toward the Sierra Nevada’s, with the hopes of sticking it rich. Which impacted the social life and the economy, while effected the rest of the country. Producing a number of diverse people seeking to make a fortune, influenced California and the American life.