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I appreciate quite a few aspects of Wake Forest. The school provides many fantastic academic opportunities and clubs and sports to pursue your interests, which I love. (I do wish we had a chorus though.. hint, hint) The staff is generally friendly and I love most of my past teachers and present teachers. I often visit, or say "Hi" and I like talking to them. Though, the one problem is...most of the students are...indescribably irritating. Most of the teachers just write it off as just "kids being

Petrified Forest National Park is located in East Central Arizona. The address of the Park is P.O. Box 2217 Petrified Forest National Park, AZ 95028. It is 218,533 acres, after being expended in 2004. It was first proclaimed a National Monument on December 8, 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt. It was later established as a National Park on December 9, 1962. The Park is also located near the southern edge of the Colorado Plateaus, and is southeast of the Grand Canyon National Park. The Petrified Forest National

Lee de Forest was born August 26, 1873 in Council Bluffs Iowa. He was the son of Anna Robbins and Henry Swift de Forest. When Lee was a child, his father moved their family to Alabama. There, Lee expressed his love for science by experimenting with gadgets and machinery. His father planned for him to have a career in the clergy but Lee saw a future for himself in science. To prepare for college, he attended Mount Hermon Boy’s School for two years then enrolled at Yale University. In 1898 he enlisted

Management of Old-growth Forests in the Pacific Northwest When westward expansion brought settlers to the Northwest in the 1800s, they discovered that coniferous trees “forty feet in circumference [that] shot two-hundred feet straight up” flourished in the forests of the Pacific coast (Ervin 55). These early pioneers found the opportunity for economic growth in logging these vast forests of towering trees unlike any they had seen before. Today, the timber industry still remains the backbone

In the article Impacts of Hunting on Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia, by Harrison and others, the authors examine how a wide variety of factors have influenced hunting practices in Southeast Asia and led to a rapid decline in animal populations in the region. According to the criteria outlined by Clark, the problem in this article is well defined: the practices employed by hunters are unsustainable and indiscriminate, destroying large numbers of vulnerable and rare animal species. Solutions

UNC Chapel Hill or Wake Forest University I would like to get a teaching degree from a university. The two universities that I really love are UNC Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University. When comparing UNC Chapel Hill to Wake Forest I find they are both similar, yet different. Looking at cost of tuition, the number of students, graduation rate, location, admission rate, room and board, financial aid, and flexibility for both universities it will help me decide which college I would most likely

Relationships between functional diversity and C stocks in different forest ecosystems Recent studies focused on biodiversity have begun to include the concept of functional diversity, which measures the range, value, and distribution of functional traits of organisms in a community ecosystem (Tilman et al. 1997; Mouchet et al. 2010). It is becoming increasingly accepted that biodiversity components of plant community, i.e. the species identity, abundance and divergence of functional traits, strongly

The White Mountains National Forest in New Hampshire is located within the Northeast Mountains region of the major Land Resource Areas as defined by the Natural Resource Conservation Service. This area is defined by its rounded mountains and foothills as well as its mixed forest of northern hardwoods, fir and spruce. High gradient streams flow into swamps and lakes in the steep valleys. These characteristics create a unique ecosystem that provides many services for people and wildlife. Land features

one half of the forests that covered the Earth are gone. Africa suffers the second largest net loss in forests with 4.0 million hectares cleared annually. At 11.1%, Nigeria 's annual deforestation rate of natural forest is the highest in the world and puts it on pace to lose virtually all of its primary forest within a few years (Rhett, 2005). Many of the environmental problems encountered globally today, are being attributed to deforestation and subsequent conversion of forest lands into other

Will Economic Valuation of Nature Be Happily Ever After for Canadian Boreal Forest? “Nature with all her beautiful plants and animals along with humans lived happily ever after”- This would be that perfect ending that I would envisage if I ever wrote a fairy tale with Nature as the female protagonist. But with growing human population and increasing demand for natural resources our planet’s happily ever after story seems very distant and distraught. According to Convention of Biological Diversity