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Black Bear Management Plan
326 wordsIntroduction: The animal we are researching is the Black Bear. Our goal is to make a management plan. This plan will help the Black Bear thrive, and keep them from human contact. The Black bear is important economically because of their furs. Biologically they are part of the ecosystem and keep things balanced. Literature Review Of Species Life History: The Black Bear can live about 25 years. They are omnivorous. Most of their diet is soft and hard mast, insects, animal matter, and plants. Their...
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National Park Service San Francisco Bay
1,096 wordsNestled in the foothills of San Francisco, lies one of the United States most beautiful and historic national parks. Dating back to 1776 when Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza established the Presidio as a military garrison under commission of the government of Spain. In 1848 it was transferred by a treaty from Mexico, to the United States. The Presidio has played a major role in the settlement and defense of the West for more than 200 years. It served as a mobilization and embarkation poin...
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Oil And Gas Endangered Species
648 wordsA half-dozen conservation organizations today plan to file a petition under a little-known state law seeking to have Cook Inlet beluga whales Conservation groups filed a request to have the whales listed as a federal endangered species this spring. The National Marine Fisheries Service has until next spring to make a decision on that request, but representatives for the groups said they decided to seek a state designation under Alaska's Endangered Species law to add another layer Jack Sterne, an...
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Dam Or Reservoir Begins To Fill Water
1,212 wordsWater, the life blood of the planet earth. With out water, the earths high variety of life could have never been created. Ever since history has been recorded, man has constructed society around water as a resource. As technology and science increased; civilizations created new ways to store and manage water, this new knowledge came a the production of dams. Many people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and muddy the time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early civili...
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Dorsal Fin Heavy Armor Seahorse
669 wordsThe seahorse is a vertebrate fish and is a close relative of the pipe fish. Its Genus is Hippocampus. There are about 40 different species, including, Hippocampus focus (the black seahorse) and Hippocampus kids (Oceanic seahorse, Kellogg's seahorse, Common seahorse or Yellow seahorse). Depending on species the seahorse can range in length from 5 cm to 36 cm tall and live up to 4 years old. They also have an extremely wide range of colors some of these include, white, yellow, red, brown, black, g...
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Golf Courses Ground Water
1,861 wordsThere are many things that have an affect on the environment such as erosion, gases in the air, the population growing so rapidly that the environment cannot sustain what we have, and many others. But how many people look at golf courses and think of the effect that the courses being built and sustained has on the environment. Most people would say that golf courses are good for the environment because there are trees and grass and things that seems undisturbed. Many people would also say that g...
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Effects Of Acid Acid Deposition
770 wordsAcid Rain is a type of air pollution, formed when oxides of sulfur and nitrogen combine with atmosphere moisture to yield sulfuric and nitric acids, which may then be carried long distances from a source before they are deposited by rain. This pollution may also be snow, fog, or a dry form of precipitation. Acid rain is currently a subject of great controversy because of widespread environmental damage for which it has been blamed, including eroding structures, injuring crops and forests, and th...
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Public And Private Environmental Movement
889 wordsAt 87, David Brower, fighter for American environmentalism, isn't ready to hang up his gloves and wish the Earth well. Director of the Sierra Club from 1952 - 1969 and founder of three internationally recognized environmental groups; Brower is still up and about, manning the frontlines of the environmental movement. A combat veteran and three-time Nobel nominee, the soft-spoken activist recently turned his attention from single-issue advocacy to broader coalitions: Last October, he announced the...
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Native People Indigenous People
536 wordsThe film Medicine Man gives a very clear indication of the consequences of habitat destruction. In the film, a professor and his research assistant sets out to find a plant that holds the cure of cancer, only to have it destroyed by land clearing in the Amazon Basin. The land clearing also severely disrupts the peaceful, sustainable lifestyle of a tribe of natives and a huge amount of flora and fauna. It shows us the damage we wrought with our deforestation on a slightly exaggerated, nut no less...
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Milky Juice Life Cycle Plant
378 wordsScientific name -Kingdom-Plant, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Class- Angiospermae, Order- Asterales, Family- Asteraceca, Genus- Taraxacum, Species- official Description - The Taraxacum official is a perennial herb that grows from two to eighteen inches tall they are a stem less plant and all parts of the plant contain a milky juice. The leaves are an olive or a dull yellowish color, and smooth with ridged edges where it got its common name, dandelion from the French words "dent de lion" which means lion...
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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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Living Organism Human Beings
889 wordsPreservation of Biodiversity Human beings have inhabited Earth for just a blink of an eye. Almost any ecosystem can provide resources valuable to humans. 'However, recent reports show that approximately 40 percent of the earth's land surface has been altered by humanity'; (Becher). These altered surfaces have provided communities for humans, but the process has destroyed many native species and ecosystems. Global biodiversity is currently in danger. Estimates vary in how fast a species becomes e...
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Gorilla Walks One Reason Gorillas
201 wordsThe gorilla walks Gorillas GORILLA The gorilla walks on all four they are the longest humans like apes. The gorilla is not a monkey. It is an ape because monkeys have tails. Their mass is about 70 - 200 kg. The gorilla sweats from the apricorn glands in their armpit when stressed. The gorilla is the biggest primate. They only have 5 to 10 family members. Gorillas are herbivores. They eat leaves, twigs bark, and grasses. They also eat bugs And fruit. They only have on child every birth. A law tha...
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Habitat For Humanity Egypt And Israel
1,160 wordsJames Earl Carter Jr. (192 James Earl Carter Jr. , the 39 th President of the United States, was the first President from the Deep South since Andrew Jackson, and the first President to officially use his nickname, Jimmy, is office. Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia on October 1, 1924. In 1927 his family moved to the tiny settlement of Archery, just outside Plains, where he lived until he was 17 years old. As a boy he mopped cotton, which means to take the seeds out of cotton. He graduate...
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Ability To Perform Wild Animals
415 wordscan be Wildlife Ethics Wildlife can be found all over the world. Animals come in all shapes and sizes and some still haven? t even been accounted for. Animals were on this planet long before man, but they may not be here when man leaves. The animals? downfall results from the extensive studying, exploitation, and the destruction of their habitats, which should be against the law. There is a lot of information that can still be learned about certain species of animals. This information is good, o...
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
403 wordsDinosaurs: How they became extinct Something happened 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, something so devastating that it altered the course of life on earth. It seems like it happened so sudden, as geologic time goes, that almost all the dinosaurs living on earth disappeared. So how did these dominant creatures just die off? Was it a slow extinction, or did it happen all of the sudden? These questions bring rise to many different beliefs on how the dinosaur disappeared o...
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Animal And Plant Billion Dollars
795 wordsPerhaps we take it for granted that our beautiful homeland will be forever changed because of the effects of modern civilizations. The environment, local animals, plants, and neighboring niches are all being affected by a few factors. The insensitivity of humans towards our fellow living creatures has caused the Everglades to shrink dramatically in the last one hundred years. The health of the everglades has been compromised because we as humans need more space to live on, bigger roads, and adve...
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Nobel Peace Prize Missionaries Of Charity
886 wordsMother Teresa has dedicated her life to helping the poor, the sick, and the dying around the world. She is one of the most well known and respected people of the 20 th century. The movie that viewed in class displayed it very well. It showed how much she cared about the un-cared for and how she preached to millions of people around the world. In her speeches she spoke of blessing the misfortune and loving them as well. She also spoke of how easy it is to help them. All we have to do is show some...
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20 Years Panda Pandas
519 wordsGiant Pandas Panda Ecology The giant panda (Ailuropoda melaleuca) was once widespread in southern and eastern China and in neighbouring Myanmar and north Vietnam. Today, however, there are only around 1, 000 left, and all of these are found in one geographic region the bamboo forests of southwestern China. The panda has the digestive system of a carnivore. Long ago, however, it adapted to a vegetarian diet and now feeds almost exclusively on the stems and leaves of bamboo. Hidden in the dense fo...
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Knuckle Walk Female Orangutans One
1,015 wordsThe orangutan, Porno pygmies, is an ape that is found in the moist, coastal rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo which consists of Indonesia's Kalimantan provinces, Malaysia's Sabbath and Sarawak, and the kingdom of Brunei Darussalam. Orangutans live in tropical rainforests and are arboreal primates meaning that they are tree dwelling. Orangutans construct nests in the tree branches for the night in which they will curl up and sleep. These nests are made out of leaves and branches and they will som...
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