Hundred Acre Wood

coast of Northern Carolina, USA. The RNSP contain 133,000 acres and is located entirely within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties. The park consists of 4 different parks; Redwood National Park, California's Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks. The four parks protect 45% of the remaining redwood trees. The redwood trees are the tallest and the most massive trees in the world. The RNSP protect 38,982 acres of old-growth forest, contributing to environmental…

Bigfoot research websites that contained alleged recordings of the “whoop call”, I said to myself, “next time I go out in the woods, I might try to imitate this call to see what might occur.” I did not think I would ever receive a response, but what the heck, it never hurts to try. On Saturday, June 27th, 2009, I went fishing on a lake that surrounded a fifteen-hundred-acre wilderness/recreation area. Before making my first cast, I made five or six “whoop calls”, doing my best to imitate the…

The first railroad invented that traveled across the country was called the transcontinental railroad. It consisted of 1,907 miles of iron rails, stretching from the Mississippi River all the way to San Francisco by the Pacific Ocean. The railroads provided a way to transport goods quicker and cheaper. It gave states and western settlements more money to buy other things such as coal, or livestock. Those first railroads also opened up jobs for the unemployed living in the western plains. Before…

Located in the northern third of the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) is some 1 million acres of amazing and unique landscape. Stretching more than 150 miles along the International Boundary adjacent to Quetico Provincial Park, Canada, and sharing boundaries with Voyageurs National Park, BWCA features roughly 1200 miles of canoe routes, some 2000 designated campsites, and a dozen hiking trails. Before the name was changed to BWCA,…

Deeper Than an Advertisement For hundreds of years, the business of deforestation has been booming. At the same time, it has catastrophic effects on the environment. According to conserve-energy-future.com, since approximately one and a half acres of forests and jungles are being chopped down every second, it is estimated we will have no forests left within the next hundred years or so. As a result of having our forests die, our wildlife population dies alongside with it. The website also…

entertains millions of summer visitors who resort to enjoy the scenic beauty of mountains, lakes and seashore. The soil is suitable for growing fruits, flowers and veggies. The beauty to the landscape is added by various forests like pine, spruce and hard wood and adds wealth to the land as well. The state is famous for the products made from the sap of the maple tree. Hampton and Rye beaches are most famous spots during summer. The salt waves of the Atlantic enchant visitors to enjoy surf…

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, a Marxist view is displayed in the setting of the twentieth century. During this period of time, the blacks were finally receiving some freedom from the whites, but there was still segregation between the two colors. There were also distinctions in class. Janie is an African American that has fairly white skin, and she has three marriages, each in different classes. Throughout the novel, she experiences different classes and social…

For my first four years of life, I lived in the beautiful Colorado mountains. Skiing down the mountains and building snowman 's was apart of my everyday life. My father loved the life there but wanted me to see what it was like where he grew up. We eventually moved the family to the city where I would learn how my relatives grew up. I grew up in a town known as the “Spinach Capital of the World” which allowed me to feel a family oriented setting, get to know the history my family had, and grow…

known for planting hundreds of trees across the North American frontier, but few know that this story is more fact than fiction. His real name was John Chapman, and for forty years he traveled from Philadelphia to Ohio, scavenging apple seeds from cider mills which he would eventually plant in scattered locations across the country (Means 82). Thanks to certain homestead acts which considered his trees to be land stakes, it is estimated Chapman controlled over twelve hundred acres of land by the…

The Rural Cemetery Movement With rapidly growing urban populations in the mid-1800’s, it was important to develop healthy, green, spaces for city dwellers. The Rural Cemetery Movement encouraged American cities to use cemetery space as multi-functional space for leisure, recreation, environmental preservation, and for healthy burial practices (Lundgren). "In a country sorely lacking in public green spaces, these cemeteries provided these graceful, elegant places…They were all around…