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Clear Cutting Fossil Fuel
1,541 wordsThe uses and applications of paper and paper products are virtually limitless. In addition to the societal needs of paper for recording and disseminating of information, and for packaging materials, the United States pulp and paper industry employs more than 200, 000 people, produces nine million tons of pulp, and 26 billion newspapers, books and magazines annually. Though U. S. mills represent only 15 % of paper mills worldwide, they produce 36 % of the world's paper (Smook, 1992). "Exports of ...
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Struggle For Survival Ability To Make
1,039 wordsI looked across the road while walking one day and noticed two squirrels in a love quarrel, well granted it was mating season but the way they fought off each other caught my attention. The two minute creatures gently battled and showed each other a glimpse of victory. Intrigued by the scene I found myself becoming one with these creatures but at the sight of me the squirrels darted away like most wild creatures do. As I continued my walk down the street the strangest feeling fell over me. It wa...
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Hundred Thousand Tom Clancy
1,740 wordsWill the books as we know them cease to exist? In the future, will children know what books are? Plain books in paper. Will they remember them? Many think not, because the computer is taking slowly over our lives. Soon every thing will be connected to one big network they say. Personally I have doubts. Yes, the computer is becoming more and more part of our everyday life, but we will not stop printing books. I dont think anybody prefers to read a novel on a computer screen. No, to have a solid b...
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Clean Water Act Environmentally Friendly
1,550 wordsThrough my research I have come to the decision that Senator Robert Torricelli stands negative on environmental issues and Representative Frank Lo Biondo stands positive on environmental issues according to their voting records. It is my finding that Senator Robert Torricelli tends to vote for issues that are more people friendly such as laws that would keep or create more jobs. He cares about health issues such as clean water and air but when it comes to things like preserving environmental hab...
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Prince William Sound Christian Science Monitor
1,783 wordsOn March 24, 1989 at 4 minutes past midnight, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska's breath-taking Prince William Sound. Instantaneously, the quiet waters of the sound became a sea of black. "We " ve fetched up - ah - hard aground north of Goose Island off Bligh Reef, and - ah - evidently leaking some oil, " Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the ship, radioed the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office back in Valdez. That "some oil" turned out to be a total of 11, 000, 000 gallons of crude o...
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Founding Fathers Bear Arms
1,163 wordsGun control has always been a splitting issue with activists and politicians. The question that is frequently asked is, How far is too far when it comes to controlling guns? Gun control has boiled down to three essential points, which are continually being debated within the United States government. The most common point that is made is that the American people have a right to bear arms according to The Constitution. The second issue is that guns are not what kill people; People kill people. Th...
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Lowered Parking Lights Difficulty Of Finding Poem
808 wordsIn William Stafford's poem Traveling through the Dark, the theme of confrontation between wilderness and technology exists. This poem also deals with the difficulty of finding the right path, choosing to do the morally right thing. The speaker is a man traveling at night who finds a dead doe on the edge of the road. The doe was killed in an earlier collision with another vehicle: a recent killing; she had stiffened already, almost cold. The speaker faces a moral dilemma early in the poem: It is ...
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One Of The Worlds Waters
671 wordsFrom my humble beginnings in an ice cave high in the Tibetan Himalayan's, I wind 2, 600 miles through remarkable years of history. I am known by Asian peoples as the holy river. I have seen war and hunger. I will now tell of who I am and who I know. I am the tenth largest river in the world. My course runs through China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and on to the South China Sea. I provide life-giving resources for countless people and wildlife. My history is long and diverse. Early man in...
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Controlling Deer Overpopulation Through Increased Hunting
1,515 words... nth's, high deer populations can deplete food sources critical to their own survival. It can take many years for damaged winter habitat to recover (38). When this depletion of their own food sources exists deer become sickly and weak. Its not uncommon for overgrown herds to live in poor health and to be much smaller in stature then a herd of normal abundance. Shedd and Monahan show that, deer in an over populated area weighed thirty percent less then deer of acceptable numbers elsewhere (6)....
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Aims Of The World Wildlife Organization
424 wordsThe World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is an environmental organization dedicated to protecting the worlds wildlife and wetlands. It is one of the largest private supported conservation organizations in the world, with support from 1 million members in just the United States. Since 1961 the WWF has invested in over 13, 100 projects in 157 countries. I picked this organization to write to, and to write about, because they seem very involved in helping the wildlife and the wetlands. With so many members, a...
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge Energy
331 wordsWhat Are We Trying to Accomplish? Emboldened by the election, President Bush and his allies in Congress have renewed their call to open up the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The Senate is expected to vote on this as soon as the week of March 14. This will be an incredibly close vote, with a handful of Senators deciding the fate of this spectacular wilderness. That is why we need to mobilize Americans around the country to speak out for protecting the Arctic National Wi...
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Columbia River River Basin
2,078 wordsEthical Solution How can the Judeo-Christian Economic principles be related to business organization? Lets explore the ethical dilemma related to the economy of the environment. The building organization Builders and Co plans to construct the dam on the Columbia River Basin. Big dam building development projects have already arrived in our country. The Big Dam planned to be constructed by Builders and Co is a governmental-qualified project, with commercial coloring. This initiative has its purpo...
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Ozone Depletion Ozone Layer
2,469 wordsThe Potential Effects of a Depleted Ozone Layer And God said, let there be light and there was light and then God saw the light, that it was good (Genesis 1: 3 - 4). Undoubtedly, light is good. Without light man could not survive. Light is the ultimate cosmic force in this universe allowing man to progress and flourish. In the form of heat, light from the sun warms the Earth. Light, also, is the single most important factor influencing the growth and development of plants. Photosynthesis, a proc...
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Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez
2,122 wordsOn March 24, 1989 one of the biggest oil spills in U. S. history occurred. This spill was great, it took over two years to clean up. To this day, Prince William Sound is still suffering from the grounding of the Exxon Valdez. On a windless Spring night in 1989, the two worlds of nature and industry collided (Carr pg. 0). If you were to go fishing off the shores of Blair Island, you marin into a gooey black substance, known as crude oil. March 24, 1989 just west of Blair Island, the Exxon Valdez ...
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Rural Communities Natural Resource
1,396 wordsIn the Native community, we sort of feel the same way about eco-tourism. We walk that fine line of navigating between the ideals of development (which would lead one to advocate rural tourism), and the ideals of cultural tradition and integrity (which might lead one to reject rural tourism). We share this ambivalence, but recognize that these two conflicting ideals are connected with the ongoing dynamics of cultures and communities with moral, political, economic and ecological forces historical...
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Endangered Species Sexual Maturity
1,685 wordsThe Spectacled Bear, or Tremarctos Ornatus, is an endangered species. This rare bear can only be found in a few elusive spots in the world. Many endangered species all over the world don? t deserve the respect and care that they need. That is why many endangered species often become extinct or remain on the endangered species list for the remainder of their survival on Earth. Today, as more species become endangered, more people become involved in their care. Many things are being done to save e...
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Ozone Layer Million Tons
1,641 words? Ours, a water planet. The ocean covers 71 percent of the surface of the globe, and it constitutes over 90 percent of all habitable space on Earth. It? s total volume is around 300 million cubic miles and its weight is approximately 1. 3 million million million tons. No wonder that Arthur C. Clarke, scientist and writer, once remarked that it was? inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is ocean. (Mulvaney 28). Ocean pollution is growing out of control, and the clean up of our ...
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Endangered Species Million Acres
1,220 wordsWith all the new and advanced technology that is accessible today, who has time to enjoy or care about the great outdoors? Unfortunately, much of the wilderness and the animals within it are gradually fading away. There are many animals that have already been extinct and many more will soon be put on the list of extinction. In the second issue of Target Earth, Tim Stevens found in 1975, the grizzly bear was listed as a threatened species, under the Endangered Species Act. Stevens also stated, To...
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North America Public Awareness
238 wordsPheasants Forever is a nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1982 in response to the decline of the ring-necked pheasant population. Pheasants Forever is dedicated to the protection and enhancement of pheasant and other wildlife populations in North America through habitat improvement, public awareness, education, and land management benefiting landowners and wildlife alike. Pheasants Forever's system of county chapters allows 100 % of net funds raised by chapters to remain at the chapt...
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Code Of Ethics Billion Dollars
1,415 wordsPhilosophy of Sports May 18 Hunting, as defined by Webster? s Dictionary, is the act of one that hunts, specifically in the pursuit of game. The major controversy about hunting is if it is ethical. Hunting ethics is a term that defines the true standards, conduct, and moral, judgement of a sportsman. I believe that hunting is ethical and should continue to be legal throughout the United States. As long as the hunters hunt legally, safely, and their intentions are good. Hunters should hunt during...
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