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Habitat For Humanity Affordable Housing
1,062 words... Humanity? Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, Christian housing ministry. HFH seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of principles and action. How does it work? Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable, no-interest loans...
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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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Giant Panda Black Bear
1,634 wordsPandas For centuries, the giant panda has been considered to be very special and was kept in captivity as the pet of ancient Chinese emperors. Since its introduction to the western world in 1869 by a French missionary who shipped back a pelt to the Museum of Natural History in Paris, it has become one of the most revered animals in the world. The giant panda is a large mammal, which has the same general size and shape of the American black bear and the Asiatic black bear. In general, adult giant...
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Wildlife Habitat Clear Cutting
3,231 wordsThe Roadless Area Final Rule: Conservation or Preservation? In 1978, the United States Forest Service (USFS) began the management of roadless areas, i. e. , all areas greater than 5, 000 acres and without constructed roads, in a study called Roadless Area Review and Evaluation II (RARE II). The purpose of this study was to determine the suitability of these roadless areas for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. On October 13, 1999, twenty-one years later, President Clinton ...
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East Facing Slope West Facing Slope Found
1,762 words5 th Hour Evaluation Trees Wes Gale 5 th Hour Evaluation of Relative Importance Values of the Tree Species Found in Three Different Habitats at Weldon Springs Wildlife Area by Calculating Importance Values Introduction: While on our field trip we hoped to evaluate three different forest habitats by calculating individual tree species importance values. We were at Weldon Springs Wildlife Area in St. Charles. We evaluated three different microhabitat's: Upland East Facing Slope, Upland West Facing...
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Bottom Of The Ocean Plane Crash
1,929 wordsSPHERE is a Sphere Sphere SPHERE is a great unpredictable and exciting novel. The transformations between Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, and the Summary is almost perfect. As the wire snagged something the crew laying the cable on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean realized they had a problem for their were no shipwrecks on the chart. They told someone and this went up the corporate line of command and soon the military found out that their was something on the bottom of the ocean and that th...
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