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Florida Bay Dear Jenny Staletovich, Your article on the Miami Herald website called “Will Florida Bay survive the summer?” opened my eyes as to what is going on in the Florida Bay and has inspired me to bring awareness to the sea grass die off during my research trip to the Florida Bay. This week, I did my own research to measure the salinity of the Bay and the water temperature to compare the results to the last sea grass die-off which occurred in the early 1990s. I have discovered that the temperature

In 1916 Ansel Adams was a photographer who used his work to promote conservation of the wild around the area. He took a trip to Yosemite National Park where he saw more than what lay in the national park, when he looked through the lense he was fascinated. He continued to tay photos of the nature that lay beneath him in Yosemite. Later Adams was on a roll and he then began to learn darkroom techniques. He also read many photography magazines. Ansel Adams also went to photography meetings and he

technician working in arctic Alaska. After his first year, he was asked back as a team leader on an arctic fox project, and worked that for about five years, which led him to get a masters degree on arctic foxes. After that, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory on a mule deer study, his wife and him worked as a team on that for about six years before moving back to Montana, where he got another degree. He has enjoyed working all over, including studying wild horses throughout the west, working

had all the walls joined up. Because of this, the great, longest wall came into being and has represented the unification of China. Not only that, but the Great Wall also represents the seperation of China and the rest of the world since it was the national boundary of ancient China. For atleast 2,221 years, the Great Wall that has zigzagged over mountains and rivers of China like a fabulous dragon, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has become a place of interest not only to the Chinese, but to

believed that turning places into national parks would be a great way to conserve them, this allows for wild life and plants to be monitored and kept under control. With his great love for the idea of national parks, came a lot of pro’s for the environment. Biodiversity plays an important role in national parks, biodiversity helps to keep environments clean and healthy for wild life. It allows for climate regulation, pollination and water purification. Yosemite National Park was one of Muir’s creates accomplishments

In 1995 the gray wolf (Canis lupus) was reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park. The park had been without resident wolves for 70 years prior, when they were killed off in the 1930’s. This meant that in those 70 years there was no research on the effects of wolves on the park’s ecosystem. In the decades since the reintroduction, research has been able to proceed and has found some amazing results. Not only did the reintroduction of wolves impact animal life, but it also had an impact on plant

leading by 1040–1044, and was used for maritime navigation by 1111 to 1117; it was first invented since 206 BC. How much wildlife is there in Yellowstone Park? Wildlife in Yellowstone Park is best known for its mammals, this includes bison, grizzly bears, gray wolf, elk, pronghorn, bighorn, sheep, mountain goats and so many more. This park actually has the largest proportion of mammals in the lower 48 states with 67 different types of species. This being because it has a many different types of

This piece was inspired by a photograph that I took when I hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with my dad and my sister. This is a drawing of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, hence the name “Canyon and Colorado.” I used the history of drawing landscapes to create this piece; I wanted to draw the Grand Canyon’s “base” with the Colorado- not at the rim. When people started to explore America, they had to bring back the king drawings, sketches, objects, and/or descriptions from their

When I was trying to think on a paper to write, it came to my mind something I read a long time ago about Yellowstone. When wolves started to get hunted in Yellowstone and got eliminated of the equation, Coyotes were the species that occupied the main predators in the area. However, there is a small difference between coyotes and wolfs. When it comes to hunting, coyotes hunt anything that they can kill from small species to big one, they don’t follow any pattern. In the Yellowstone ecosystem were

Ansel Adams is a famous American photographer. He is well known for capturing images of the American West. Ansel was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902. As a toddler Ansel was in “the great earthquake and fire of 1906” (Turnage). This caused him to break his nose and kept him a lasting mark all through his life. With having a broken nose and being shy while in school years Ansel was not successful with fitting in. But, “his father and aunt tutored him at home” (Turnage) helping