Great Lakes

the Saltmen pilgrimage to salt lakes, which lasts months, in order to extract salt. The salts that the Saltmen extract are the backbone to their livelihood because they trade salt for the commodities they need, and it is a sacred journey that has spiritual and traditional meaning towards them. The dried up salt lakes are the backbone to the livelihood of…

thoughtful boy. At the age of 20, he decided to come to Utah. Jim was very skilled when it came to the wilderness. He was known as one of the greatest trappers, scouts, and mountain men. While he was in Utah, Jim was the first white man to see the Great Salt Lake. His career began when he joined an expedition and saw the beautiful sights of Yellowstone. He was then hired to work for Rock Mountain Fur Company. His life was very busy with expeditions. Jim married an Indian woman, Cora, in 1835,…

They own a little lake house about 45 minutes away from Sea Tac. the lakes surrounded by trees and the sun glistens through the trees and sparkles off of the water. It’s a very well maintained body of water, but the lakes downfall will always be the ice cold water. Almost painful when you first jump in, worth it though. In the garage, there’s a couple kayaks, a small fishing boat, oars, and some life jackets. I really despise going in there because it smells like musty lake water, so me and…

It is anchored to the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in the Utah desert with a meters-long straight tail that winds into the counterclockwise curvatures of the spiral. The spiral was planned for months in advance and required a team of many to bring to it to conception and thousands of tons of basalt rock, boulders, salt crystals and mud. Smithson chose the location for its stark, desolate quality and also for the features of the lake, which turns bright red seasonally due to the…

avocets and snowy plovers. It also supports millions of fish and a host of invertebrates, important food sources for the birds.” (Blogger, 2015) Salton Sea is a major problem because water is evaporating faster than water getting put back into the lake. If nothing is done about this, Salton Sea will dry up and destroy the whole ecosystem that is connected to it. “Some 90 percent of the original wetlands of the Colorado River Delta and central California have dried up or been converted…

the year 1817, a manmade canal was built and changed the lives of many ordinary Americans. The Erie Canal is a canal that spreads from Albany to Buffalo New York and connects with the Great Lakes. The Canal gave residents the chance to start over and build up from what they have. I have had the opportunity to read The Artificial River by Carol Sheriff. In her book, she explained how the Erie Canal changed lives and how it help show progress in American history. Some topics that Sheriff used to…

Each late spring, individuals run to the Great Lakes to swim and fish in the apparently unbounded waters and climb along the untainted shores. In any case, a foreboding undercurrent streams simply beyond anyone's ability to see. Beneath the water's surface wraths a natural calamity 200 years really taking shape. In The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, writer Dan Egan portrays how the lakes' characteristic history offered route to an unnatural one. From the impacts of worldwide exchange and…

According to the textbook, Michigan has over 5,100 km of shoreline on the four Great Lakes more than any other state except Alaska. Also unlike other states Michigan’s boundaries do not end at the shore. Michigan’s boundaries reach far out within the Great Lakes making up almost 40% of Michigan’s total territory. There have been many disputes on where Michigan’s boundaries begin and end. For example, the islands of Bois Blanc, Stony, Sugar and Fox reside in the Detroit River was a subject of…

previous surveys showing the current possession limits are okay, I think Minnesota should raise the panfish limit because some people rely on fish as a main source of food and income. Also, raising the limit would fix stunted sizes of panfish in many lakes across the state. Finally, raising the panfish limit would create a boost in the economy of the fishing industry. Despite the general census of Minnesota anglers who recreationally fish, there are also many who heavily rely on fishing as a…

a massive chunk of ice. Glaciers are usually formed on a high elevation location. When on top of a location very high, glaciers glide across the ground making glaciers moving. Glaciers are responsible for many landforms. They can construct kettle lakes, drumlins, eskers, and many more. Glaciers can be destructive, while moving glaciers can take along many things with them including: trees, rocks, and many more. The Wisconsin Glaciation stretched as far down to Des Moines, Iowa. To get to…