Erie Canal

while development of transportation systems benefits humans economically, the natural ecosystem is significantly changed by the “road economy” because of land separation. Which is to say, the changing of the landscape, such as a highway or a man-made canal, damages the integrality of the natural habitat for several decades. C. Researchers are required to concern if the…

at around AD 950. They are well known for many aspects of their culture, but the feature that most likely lead to their large populations and lasting culture was their irrigation canal systems. The Hohokam were focused primarily around the Salt and Gila rivers of Southern Arizona as depicted in Figure 1. The massive canal systems that they build off of these rivers allowed for the support of a large population, and allowed the growth of a wide variety of crops which could not be grown without…

to the land separation. The changing of the landscape, such as a highway or a man-made canal, destructs the integrality of…

and divert it by use of canals and dams. Irrigation has affected yuma in many ways one that is not as important anymore but was very important at one time is the steamboat at the time the dams were built this was a very viable method of travel that could now no longer do its job the water…

improvements of current roads, continuing with the introduction of canals, and finally steam engines and railroads. Occurring in this same time…

and Western Russia, the theory is that they were brought over from ships that were bringing over products to the United States. Zebra Mussels were first discovered in 1988 in the Great Lakes (invasive mussels). They have covered nearly all of Lake Erie in a matter of years, they were also found in the Mississippi River in the 1990s, once they are found in a body…

The Brainerd lakes area is a beautiful tourist attraction in central Minnesota. Thousands of people come to the huge resorts and their elaborate lake houses every summer. Many people come to fish as well which is one of the main attractions to the place I grew up in. Zebra mussels have been invading some of the lakes in our area now which is alarming. They are most prominent in Gull Lake which is a very large tourist lake which has 12 resorts and 5 separate restaurants that are accessible by…

Zebra Mussels Zebra mussels are a small freshwater mussel native to the lakes of southern Russia, deriving their name from the striped pattern typically found on their shells. Other possible patterns include white shell with brown edges as well as brown shells with white highlights. They were first described and recorded by a german zoologist by the name of Peter Simon Pallas in the year 1769 (USGS. 2015). Zebra mussels can still be found in Russian rivers but have also been accidentally…

The Canal district in Worcester, Massachusetts is most accurately described as emerging. Despite its name, Worcester covered the Blackstone Canal in the late eighteen hundreds according to the Preservation Worcester website (Preservation Worcester). The lacking presence of the physical canal provides a decent metaphor for the status of the neighborhood, an area of the city that is lacking in terms of what it wishes it could be. Lynch argues that legibility of a city is vital to their…

Panama which was well fit to place a canal. Republic of Panama is a country located in Central America between North and South America. Bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Panama has dense forests, tropical jungles, vast mountains, and harsh weather which made it difficult to build the canal. The Canal is 51 miles long and is located between Panama City on the Pacific coast to Colon on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. Construction of this canal was not only a major engineering…