Ecology, our first major topic we will dive into for this course, is the study of the interactions amongst living things in the environment. Ecology considers the interrelatedness of living things and their environment while looking at such topics as biodiversity, population trends, human impacts and successional development of ecosystems.
Please read the story found at the link below, after you have read the "mini case study" comment to your classmates by answering the prompt below the story. This will be graded as a participation grade, proper grammar and punctuation is expected.
LINK: A Brief History of New England Forests
Question for comment guidance: How has the primary use for forests of New England changed over time? Were you aware that 60-80% of all the forests in New England were once completely logged!? Why do you think our forests were able to bounce back unlike the ecosystem of Easter Island which has remained in its altered state?
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7 comments:
I'm pretty sure that when America was being industrialized, we chopped down all of the trees in New England for resources. I think that our forests have "bounced back" because we now buy our goods from other countries, thus, eliminating the need for our country to deplete it's own natural resources.
-Josh Irving
As technology developed so didn't the use for lumber, started with wood for fire and buildings then used for shipping and so on. I had no idea that 60-80% were gone that seems almost like its to much. I think it had a lot to do with the type of tree, the type of trees in new england are very fast growers and sprout and grow a lot faster than the ones in easter island.
Jonathan
Society was developed. At the same time our environment was destroyed... In the pre-settlement forest we have many kinds of plants. even if they destroyed by natural disturbance like hurricanes, other wind storms, ice storms, pathogens(insects and disease), and fires ignited by lightning strikes but almost of plants destroyed by human....
we did clearings for indian villages and fields, and burning of forests to improve hunting
The England had a lot of trees...but we chopped trees for our house, stores.....
now we protect our environment ! in order to live..
Nahyun,Shin
Umm... yeah i think the forest grew back so quickly because they were not aloud to be touched. Way back when they were used more wood more often they didn’t realize that it would affect the environment. Therefore they killed a lot of trees and the hill flattened out. Now we don’t use as much forest and in that area and we have trees and rivers that have moved. Basically I think if we left the environment alone we wouldn’t have the problems we do… but at the same time we can’t because we need the resources.
K-Berry
It is pretty obvious that when civilization began, so did the destruction of our environment. People learned that to survive we needed to use our resources from the environment. Not only did the people cut down trees for land use, but they used the trees for many tasks. It seems unthinkable that 60-80% of the trees were cut down. By cutting down all the trees it makes life limited for animal homes, and food. When civilization first began people used the environment to survive, but in today’s world we have technology that has greatly affected our society. We buy most of our supplies from other countries so that we are not destroying our own homeland. However, sooner or later down the road, people will realize that hurting other environments will hurt ours too. It just might take a little more time.
* Lindsey
It was a forest then it was cleared away now it coming back/or is back....
I was not aware of that... that to me is very interesting because all that was taken way and it has started coming back on its own... very interesting
I think the reason why they were able to bounce back was because in some parts it is law to keep the woods there and the other part is we don't cut down as many forest now because we buy that type of stuff from other places..... i have no clue about the easter island part.... truthfully i didn't even know we had an island called that..... til now
60-80 % of the trees were cut down. Are you kidding me? This number is unimaginable, i cant even picture how New England would have looked. I think that with the new development of technology, Americans no longer depend on wood for as many things as they use to back when the area was completely logged. For example, we have developed other use for heat other than burning wood. This alone would have helped the forests "bounce back" as well as other substitutions for wood.
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