Habitat loss and Degradation Roughly half of the Mojave Desert remains as intact habitat, and the remaining half has not been heavily altered by human activity. The main reasons for habitat loss in the region include urbanization and suburbanization from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. There is an increasing demand for landfill space, agricultural development along the Colorado River, grazing, off road vehicles, and military activities. A falling water table also threatens the Mojave Desert. Vehicles run over, and sometimes ruin animals homes. Development is destroying the environments. People are building on top of animals homes and polluting the area. Some of the desert area is being used for landfills. Every living thing needs somewhere to live, find food, and …show more content…
A particular ecosystem is home to a number of species and as these begin to go into a rapid decline following the loss of their habitat, a more aggressive species might take the opportunity and move in. Interviewer Brian Todd said- ‘‘ Growing pressure to develop public lands for renewable energy production places several protected species at increased risk of habitat loss. One example is the Mojave desert tortoise, a species often at the center of conflicts over public land development. For this species and others on public lands, a better understanding of their habitat needs can help minimize negative impacts and facilitate protection or restoration of habitat. We used radio-telemetry to track 46 neonate and juvenile tortoises in the Eastern Mojave Desert, California, USA, to quantify habitat at tortoise locations and paired random points to assess habitat selection. Tortoise locations near burrows were more likely to be under canopy cover and had greater coverage of perennial plants, more coverage by washes, a greater number of small-mammal burrows, and fewer white bursage than random points. Active tortoise locations away from burrows were closer to washes and perennial
The Bullfrog Valley gang was a notorious counterfeiting ring that operated in the wilderness of Pope County during the depression of the 1890’s.The gang’s origin and and methods were mysterious, but the New York Times reported ist demise on June 28, 1897.The remote valley, which follows Big Piney Creek from Long Pool to Booger Hollow, was named for Chief Bullfrog, a Cherokee Who, according to legend, settled there after his tribe’s forced removal from Georgia (the Trail of Tears by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Bullfrog Valley, an unincorporated community not typically recognized on current Arkansas state maps, is located along the Big Piney Creek near the community of Silex. According to Dumas, historically the
The King Ranch The King Ranch, 825,000 acres right here in the great state of Texas! The King Ranch started as a small cow camp in 1853, no one knew how big it would soon become in later years. Richard King started the small camp with 15,500 acres, the ranch is now 825,000 acres full of some of the finest cattle and horses in the world. Each year, more than 35,000 people go to Kingsville, Texas to visit the ranch.
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Yosemite National Park, is a beautiful piece of nature it is a 195 mile nature getaway from the urban life that is lived San Francisco, CA and 315 miles away from the fast pace and overwhelming life that is lived in Los Angeles CA. This place is like no other in the beauty of its nature. The park is “747,956 acres, and is the home to hundreds of wildlife species and thousands of Yosemite plants” (U.S. Nat. Park Service). Yosemite is known for so many beautiful features, from its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves and biological diversity. And also for its two rivers which are the Tuolumne and Merced rivers. These rivers begin in the park and flow as far as west to the Central Valley.
In 1993 the Zobrest decided to take the Catalina Foothills School District to court under the circumstance that the school district broke the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. James Zobrest was deaf since he was born, but later on decided to attend public school through the eighth grade where the local school board provided Zobrest a sign-language interpreter. Later on when James finished the eighth grade, his parents elected to send their son to a Roman Catholic high school. His parents requested that the local school board continue to provide their son with a sign-language interpreter. The school board decided to deny the request on constitutional grounds. Once the Zobrests found
The Glen Canyon is a better place because of the dam, because now there is way more power for a lot of people. Cause of the dam, more people are able to visit because it is easier to get there. Yes it kind of destroyed part of Glen Canyon but they didn’t just do it for fun. They did it for a reason and that reason was more power.
In the article, “The Great American Desert”, Edward Abbey (1977) is trying to convince the general public that the desert is not a place for humans to explore. He talks a lot about the dangers of the desert and tries to convince the readers that the desert is not worth wasting your time and going and visiting. I disagree with Abbey. Anyone who has some knowledge about the desert and takes a class or is accompanied by an expert who knows a lot about the desert should be able to venture out in the many great American deserts.
Estimates are that at the turn of the twentieth century over two million wild horses roamed free in the western United States. However, having no protection from their primary predator, man, by the 1970’s there numbers had dwindled to less than thirty thousand. In 1971, after a massive public uproar, Congress by a unanimous vote enacted the “Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act” (Act) that characterizes wild horses and burros as national treasures and provides for their protection.
Jackson (2015) mentioned that the findings in their analyses were very generic and that more research needed to be conducted to fully understand the interactions of invasive species and the effects invasive species have on various environments. It was also suggested that there should be more research conducted outside of the United States since 43% of the papers used in this study completed their research within the United States (Jackson, 2015). Hoopes et al. (2013) mentioned several limitations to their research as well. There was missing data for a large number of refuges which caused an issue when looking at trends and patterns within the data. Also, as the data was collected from numerous undergraduate students across the United States, there was some error due to compiling and entering data incorrectly. Lastly, land-history was not considered in this study which could have an effect on the end
Since the early 2000s it was generally thought that “food desert” cities were contributing factors towards adult obesity. These cities were defined by their lack of grocery stores and unavailability of fresh produce, leaving only fast food and corner stores to provide food options to the residing population. A recent study co-authored by Janne Boone-Heinonen, assistant professor of epidemiology at Oregon University of Portland, spanned 15 years observing the population in food desert cities that received funding to build supermarkets and concluded that “living close to a supermarket had no measurable impact on fruit and vegetable consumption or the overall quality of a person’s diet.” These conclusions were unexpected and do not correlate with
The Interior Plains is a region in west-central Canada, in the Mountain and Central time zones. It is the fourth largest region of Canada. Majority of the Interior Plains is prairie land with lots of flatlands. The total area of this region is 1, 900, 000 km². Approximately nineteen percent of Canada’s population lives in the Interior Plains region. This region includes certain points of interests and attractions such as city areas like downtown Calgary and natural sightseeing areas like the Rocky Mountains. The majority of the Interior Plains is prairie land, with many trees and grass. Most of this area is wide, open spaces and flat land. Some of the animals living here include deer, wolves, and
Long ago, the middle of the North American continent was a treeless prairie covered by tall grasses and roaming buffalo. When European settlers came, they called this area the Great American Desert. Today, this "desert" is covered with fields of wheat, corn, and alfalfa made possible by center-pivot irrigation. My grandfather used to sell center-pivot systems and when my family drove to my grandparent's home in Nebraska, we would count how many "sprinklers" were watering each section of land. At the time, I didn't know that this water was being pumped from somethng called the Ogallala Aquifer, a huge underground water supply. Throughout the years, this aquifer has made the Great American Desert one of the best farming areas in the world. Unfortunately, the Ogallala Aquifer's future as a valuable resource is in jeopardy, unless citizens of the Plains states reduce their water consumption.
Both the snow leopard and the green turtle are classified as endangered under the IUCN red list with decreasing population trends. Both live in very different habita...
There are 542 refuges in the U.S. comprising 95 million acres of protected land. Individual refuges serve as a multitude of purposes, including protecting endangered plants and animals and their habitats, preserving wilderness areas, providing outdoor recreational and educational opportunities, and providing lands and waters for traditional uses such as hunting and fishing. One would think that from the overall ownership of land and wonderful activities that the refuges provide, animals that are threatened or endangered would be totally protected. However, it takes a lot more than one would think to keep these refuges up and running. The biggest problems that our government is facing are lack of funds and trained personnel. These two problems have led to a diverse number of complications among the National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) and the Department of the Interior.
= == In this project I aim to explain the contributes to the environment by the actions of humans and display the consequences. I am going to divide the project into different sections and then sub sections to make the project easier to navigate around and keep the information in relevant sections. · Section 1: HABITAT REDUCTION BY HUMANS.