Peregrine Falcon

Why do you want to serve? My parents grew up in an improvised rural village in China, I knew their importance of having their children find a worthy job, which is financially stable. My parents are very proud of my sister obtaining her medical degree. Then there was me, I got C’s and B’s in my first year in college and I had no direction in my life as a business major. When I had the opportunity to trek through the lust rainforest of Sumatra, I know instantly I wanted to work in the environment.…

The Flinders Ranges The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia. located in outback South Australia about 200 kilometres north from the city of Adelaide (125 miles). The Flinders ranges stretch for over 430 kilometres. Starting at Port Pirie and ending near lake Callabonna 120 kilometers from Cameron corner, the junction of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. How where the ranges formed? Believe it or not about 8oo million years ago the Ranges…

aquatic plants and fish absorbed it. Bald eagles, in turn, were poisoned with DDT when they ate the contaminated fish. The chemical interfered with the ability of the birds to produce strong eggshells. DDT also affected other species such as peregrine falcons and brown pelicans” (US Fish and Wildlife Services). The loss of so many potential hatchlings decreased bird population and threw the ecosystem out of balance. The population of organisms lower down the food chain increased dramatically…

I will admit before reading Chapter 3 and 4 of our textbook, I never would have linked biodiversity with biological evolution and definitely not with natural selection or what I always thought of as survival of the fittest. However, it does make sense. Biological evolution is the genetic change in a given species over time that leads to modifications in appearance, functioning, or behavior that enable the species to thrive in its natural ecosystem. Such evolution is usually brought on through…

My life has never revolved around writing, reading, but definitely not writing. To be honest, I’m not even sure when I learned to read and write, all I remember is the fact that I had the ability. In the first grade, I remember being in a church youth group where they wanted the high schoolers to do a play but wanted one younger kid to be in it. The age they had in mind was a kid who was in upper elementary or middle school, but my mom told them to let me try anyways. They decided to let me join…

Despite a veritable Noah’s Ark of imperiled species (bull trout, gray wolf, woodland caribou, grizzly bear, wolverine, lynx, fisher, harlequin duck, golden eagle, bald eagle, grate gray owl, peregrine falcon, bog birch, crested shield-fern, water howellia…etc.) none of the biodiverse wilderness of the Yaak valley is protected. “The Book of Yaak” is, at its heart one long plea from Bass to help save his home. He puts himself in between the timber…

Since producers won’t be able to make food, the consumers won’t be able to eat, and then decomposers won’t have anything to decompose and break down. The cycling in the ecosystems will eventually not happen so the ecosystem will fall apart. Other trees that have already grown are blocking the sunlight from reaching the sprouts. In other words many sprouts are competing for the sparse amount of sunlight. The sprouts may also be competing for water and other ingredients necessary to grow.…