Keystone

Last year I joint the link crew leadership program, which is a program that helps upcoming freshman with the obstacles they will be facing in high school in order for them to become successful. This program allowed use to use our leadership abilities to help make the freshman feel more comfortable in their new environment. We meet the entire freshman class at our school orientation day, few day before the school started. Where every upper classmans were assigned to a group of freshmans that they…

Weasel family, is a keystone species living in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Japan, Russia, America, Canada and Mexico. It’s current population, is estimated to be just over 106,000 worldwide, with just over 3,000 in California. These aquatic mammals are currently under threat of extinction. Through scientific knowledge and understanding of the sea otter, protection laws have been put into place to create for design and action of sustainability of the environment of the keystone species,…

In Edward O. Wilson’s newest book Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, he argues that if we conserve half of the earth’s land and water for nature, we are likely to save 90% of the remaining life on the planet. At Wildlands Network, we have long advocated for essentially the same vision for the biodiversity of North America, long before Dr. Wilson so eloquently put it into words at the global scale. We’re putting these ideas into practice with the formation of our Eastern Wildway Network,…

Triple-F: Benefits and Compensation Regardless of the industry, the workforce employed by virtually any company represents the keystone of that company’s overall success. For non-profit organizations, however, hiring and maintaining a viable workforce becomes all the more important since the company is often dependent upon the goodwill of its donors and or supporters. In developing this workforce, the chief operating officer (CEO) of the Triple-F Foundation, a public, 501(c)(3) non-profit…

The arches that we use today were improved by the Romans. They made the arches more durable and able to support heavy weight without collapsing. They used concrete made of a mixture of volcanic sand and lime. Instead of one keystone at the top, the Romans put many smaller keystones to better balance out the weight of the structures above the arch. Arches were used in almost every building from aqueducts to amphitheaters. The Romans gave us the stable and durable arch we use today. We use arches…

example of the government defying big business to combat climate change. However, the pipeline was vetoed meaning it passed through the House and Senate. A Republican president might not do the same. Furthermore, while President Obama vetoed the Keystone Pipeline, he and congress did not enact any carbon emission taxes, a policy which the left has strongly advocated. In the foreseeable future there will be hesitant indecision by the government on issues of climate change as to appeal to both…

Mount Rushmore is located in Keystone, South Dakota in the Black Hills. Its address is 13000 SD-244, Keystone, SD, 57751. Its area is 1278.45 square acres, and the monument is 5,725 feet tall. The terrain is mountainous and surrounded by prairie. Mount Rushmore was the brainchild of Doane Robinson, a local historian, who came up with the idea in 1923 in order to promote tourism to South Dakota. The task of creating the monument was given to Gutzon Borglum, a famous Danish-American sculptor.…

removed from Yellowstone National Park. These types of changes include structural or compositional modifications, alterations in import and export of nutrients, loss of resilience to disturbance, and decreases in native species diversity (Paine). Keystones are species whose activities maintain other species and habitat diversity, and whose those effects are disproportionate to their abundance. The elimination of apex predators destabilizes ecosystems, setting off chain reactions that eventually…

There are many different organisms and mammals that inhabit the oceans of our world and each one is unique and special to their environments. Each organism has a vital role to play and each is important in keeping our oceans balanced. Two of my favorite animals that I’d like to explore further is the sea otters and the manatees, both amazing marine mammals. Both animals are now considered endangered and many have taken acts towards conservation for them to perhaps strive once again in the future…

When it comes down to the fight that took place between the brothers, both of them took place for widely differing reasons. In the case of Romulus and Remus, they quarreled over who would ultimately take the throne of Rome. Under the surface, Romulus and Remus both of them want the throne, and proclaim that their signs from god as evidence to why they should be proclaimed king. This is complicated by their being multiple interpretations of why Romulus ended up slaying Remus, with Livy saying…