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Forest Management National Forest
574 wordsThe 11, 000 acres now known as the Tuskegee National Forest was originally a vast cotton field, home to sharecroppers. These sharecroppers planted cotton each year until the soil was no longer fit for yielding crops. This incidence caused the sharecroppers to relocate to Shorter, Alabama. This also allowed those same 11, 000 acres to be established as the Tuskegee National Forest. Much of the forest is a lone leaf pine ecosystem that contains plants such as blue stem grass, blueberries, yucca, a...
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Clean Water Act Net Loss
560 wordsEvery year our nations wetlands have an estimated loss of 117, 000 acres. This means every five minutes an area the size of a football field is lost. What people do not understand is that we need wetlands for many beneficial reasons. Most people do not even know what wetlands consist of. There are four major types of wetlands which are: isolated wetlands, bogs of the Northeast, bottomland hardwood forest wetlands, and playa lakes. Isolated wetlands consist of small, seasonal ponds filled with wa...
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Economic And Political Feel Secure
1,429 wordsThe Tribe's vision is to be a tribal community known as a caring people, dedicated to the principles of honesty and integrity, building community, individual responsibility and self-sufficiency through personal empowerment, and responsible stewardship of human and natural resources; a community willing to act with courage in preserving tribal cultures and traditions for all future generations. The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon includes over 20 Tribes and bands from w...
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Girl Named One Day
1,166 wordsTobias, Emma, and Zech Mac Ivey came to Florida from Georgia n 1858. They came to Florida for a new life and to get away from the civil war. The first few years in Florida they lived in a lean-to. But shortly after Tobias built a house in the scrub, eating raccoon meat and biscuits made from cattail flour. One day Tobias met some Seminole Indians that told them how to herd cattle, grow a garden and how to make better flour, the leader was Keith Tiger. This helped Emma out a lot as well as Tobias...
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Puerto Rican Puerto Rico
764 wordsStatus: Endangered throughout its range, Federal Register, March 11, 1967. The Puerto Rican parrot is bright green, about a foot in length, with red forehead, blue primary wing feathers, and flesh-colored bill and feet. This bird feeds chiefly on wild fruits, particularly the sierra palm (Pre storia montana), but may also consume flowers and tender shoots. During October, when other fruits are scarce, the tabonuco fruit (Dacryodes excelsa) becomes an important food item. Rodriguez-Vidal (1959) l...
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World Wide Great Plains
1,477 wordsAt one time, bison were widespread from Alaska to northern Mexico. Now bison have been exterminated in the wild except in Yellowstone Park in Wyoming and Wood Buffalo Park, Northwest territory, Canada. The bison are gone in the prairie of the United States along with many of the ecosystem's species. Deep scars mar the landscape where the soil has been swept way by water runoff. The life of the rancher and farmer is vanishing. The body of the bison is huge. They are also tall animals and have two...
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U S Congress Ice Caps
3,050 words... silly means that any and all assistance that comes from the government to help farmers. Things like disaster insurance, and bonding are all cut from them until they either get a permit or restore the wetland (Mitchell, J. (1992, October) Our Disappearing Wetlands. National Geographic, Pg. 35). It was said before that farming is one of the most destructive forces working against wetlands, which is why theres a whole section devoted to it. Farming has always used wetlands for their water and t...
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Retrieved November 7 2006 Web Retrieved November 7 2006 Wetlands
359 wordsThe Destruction of Wetlands The destruction of wetlands is the issue of the modern American ecology. First of all, lets give definition to a term wetland. Wetland means the territories that were saturated or inundated by ground water or surface. Wetlands usually include bogs, swamps, marshes and other similar areas. The major part of wetlands is located Alaska. Approximately than 103, 000, 000 acres in the lower 48 states remain nowadays and an additional 170 mln acres in Alaska from 215 million...
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Helen Hunt Jackson Indian Tribes
2,278 words... of this board included encouraging the Indians to independently strive for their rights, ensuring that the Indians had access to lawyers, ascertaining that the money allocated for the benefit of Indians was used for that purpose only. Several smaller organizations were affiliated to the Board and generated funds for the board by arranging events and memberships. By 1924, Indians made up the bulk of the auxiliary organizations and these organizations had close to 11, 000 members. However, the...
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Cattle Ranching Amazon Rainforest
608 wordsDuring the past several decades, changes in the global climatic pattern has become evident and has attracted much attention from both the general public and the professional environmental organizations. Deforestation is one of the main reasons for these known changes. One of the reasons that cause the disappearing of the Amazon rainforest is industrial logging, which is the single largest problem. Other problems that also contribute to the disappearing of the Amazon forests include road construc...
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Square Mile Job Growth
1,034 wordsFrom homeowners worried about crime and property values om Frog town to Burnsville commuters whose drive on Interstate 35 W gets slower each year, no one is immune to sprawls effects. It sets Bloomington against Lakeville in competition for new industry and pits Brookdales comedown against Maple Groves hope to attract a new regional mall. It makes highways more crowded and mass transit less viable. It requires more roads and sewers and higher taxes to pay for them. It has economic effects as wel...
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000 000 Acres Total Acreage Of England Time
1,417 wordsThe subject of these lectures is the industrial and Agrarian Revolution at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The course is divided into three parts. The first deals with Adam Smith and the England of his time. It will describe England on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, and the system of regulation and protection of industry as it existed in 1760. Previously to 1760 the old industrial system obtained in England; none of the great mechanical inventions had ...
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Washington D C House Of Burgesses
3,583 wordsDuring the last 300 years that people have been living in America, the United States has had many great leaders and George Washington is the greatest of all. While Abraham Lincoln may be remembered as the greatest president, and Robert E. Lee or Ulysses S. Grant as the greatest general, George Washington was the most important figure the country has ever known. Washington not only led the colonials that won the war of independence, but he also adjourned the committee that wrote the constitution ...
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Marijuana Cigarettes Nineteenth Century
3,192 wordsHISTORY OF WEED Marijuana in the New World By: Erica Marijuana in the New World The first definite record of the marijuana plant in the New World dates from 1545 AD, when the Spaniards introduced it into Chile. It has been suggested, however, that African slaves familiar with marijuana as an intoxicant and medicine brought the seeds with them to Brazil even earlier in the sixteenth century. There is no record that the Pilgrims brought marijuana with them to Plymouth but the Jamestown settlers di...
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Marijuana Tax Act American Medical Association
2,757 wordsInstantly, from the title of this essay, you will stereotype me for being a pothead. Well, I m not. The reason I did this topic is because I was not informed of all the facts, and believe they should be shared. I also once thought that those people at NORML (a group of people trying to legalize Marijuana) were just potheads, wanting to smoke up all the time. I received information on them, and their beliefs. A lot of this information makes perfectly good sense, and should be considered and read ...
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Marijuana Tax Act Billions Of Dollars
1,562 wordsIs The Il legalization of Marijuana Valid? The debate over the legalization of Cannabis sativa, more commonly known as marijuana, has been one of the most heated controversies ever to occur in the United States. Its use as a medicine has existed for thousands of years in many countries world wide and is documented as far back as 2700 BC in ancient Chinese writings. When someone says ganja, cannabis, bung, dope, grass, rasta, or weed, they are talking about the same subject: marijuana. Marijuana ...
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Israeli Palestinian Conflict Yitzhak Rabin
1,309 wordsIsraeli Palestinian Conflict The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is a dangerous and volatile situation that has attracted American attention for some decades. The conflict is a sensitive subject that produce strong emotions in people. This conflict deals with Jewish nationalism, distribution of resources, and politics. About a hundred years ago, Jews underwent a drastic change in their view of themselves. At first a few, and then more, began to call themselves Zionists. Zionism is a term that in it...
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National Forest Black Hills
673 wordsHELENA, Mont. (AP) Beleaguered firefighters in Montana enjoyed something of a lull in their battle against dozens of wildfires, but a new blaze near Yellowstone National Park forced the evacuation of up to 150 homes. And a firestorm in a remote Idaho forest destroyed most of the buildings at a guest ranch, and another guest ranch was ordered evacuated. There were concerns the entire town of Red Lodge, a resort community near Yellowstone in south-central Montana, might have to be evacuated in the...
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Mount St 000 Acres
213 wordsMount Saint Helens Mount Saint Helens, A volcanic peak in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens is situated in southwestern Washington State. Dormant since 1857, it erupted on May 18, 1980, in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions ever recorded in North America. An explosive steam eruption on March 27, 1980, was followed by alternating periods of inactivity and minor eruption. A severe earthquake on May 18 opened a crack along the mountains north side. The north slope fell away in an avalanch...
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Civil Rights Act 15 Th Amendment
1,477 wordsDuring the 12 year period after the Civil War (1865 - 1877) four main groups of people, Southern Whites, Recently Freed Blacks, Northern Democrats, and Northern Republicans, were all competing to rebuild the war ravaged South to their advantage or ideals, but it was the Southern Whites whose needs were most closely met. Because the freedmen were never given social equality, education, means of economic success, or full participation in government operations the plantation owners of the south wer...
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