Redwood National and State Parks

In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt followed and increased the nation's reserves by another 13 million. (6, pg.29-30) The U.S. Forest Service was then established in 1905. This law was carried out with a great number of responsibilities to come for the members of the service. These members were supposed to avoid timber deprivations, to help lumberjacks and fight the big lumber organizations, to protect water supply, and create public recreational areas. (2, pg.31) This law was made to attempt to please…

Ansel Adams “I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.” My thoughts: It is tempting, but too easy, to think of Ansel Adams as simply the Norman Rockwell of landscape photography, immensely popular but insignificant. Every year there is yet another books produced capturing some aspect of his career, another calendar featuring his breathtaking black-and-white views of Yosemite Valley in…

for national parks in the 1800’s. People started to do want to get away from the more industrialized cities. Most people found nature being peaceful. So, they found these natural wonder, and they didn’t want it to turn into another Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls was a big shame on the US Government, and on the US citizens. This is because a lot of rich people bought the land around the falls, and you had to pay a very expensive amount to go see the falls. That is why people pushed for national…

Fifteen miles south of the world-renowned Yosemite Valley sits alone the Hetch Hetchy Valley with its water roaring. Hard to believe, but it was once recognized as the counterpart of the Yosemite Valley and grabbed the same attention for its natural beauty— cascading waterfalls, lofty mountain cliffs, and serene rivers. John Muir, an ardent advocate for the preservation of the wilderness, described the experience of visiting Hetch Hetchy to be a sheer pleasure: “it [was] a bright day in June;…

Us as humans we need to save Florida's Everglades. The Everglades is filled with rich bodies of waters swamps, marshes and bogs. All of these bodies of water are useful for animals especially endangered animals that need the everglades to survive and also for us humans the swamps marshes and bogs help slow down the hurricanes and storms that are heading to land. They are also ''known as “transition zones” because they are the link between water and land, and they have a unique combination of the…

The chosen National Park in this case is the Wilson Promontory Park. It is located in the Gippsland region of Victoria and has an area of 505km2. Wilsons Promontory is mostly consisted of mountains and open forests, so many hikers and bush walkers love walking through it to catch a glimpse of the magnificent scenery. Currently this Park is under restrictions and laws and enforcements have been made so they keep this area clean and as eco-friendly as possible, but so far these enforcement…

This show was with Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston; together they made up Group f/64, which is an aperture setting. This group favored “pure or straight photography” instead of pictorialsm. In the fall of 1941, he began taking photographs of National Parks, Indian reservations as well as other locations for the Department of the Interior. They used mural-sized prints to decorate the department’s new building. In 1952, Adams along with a few others started the magazine…

Wolves had been missing in Yellowstone National Park for more than 70 years. As a result, the ecosystem of the Park had completely changed. Without any predator that threatened them, the number of deer had grown overreact, destroying vegetation and forcing other species to look elsewhere in order to survive. In 1995 they decided to reintroduce a small number of wolves. Only with their presence, the wolves managed to recover the entire ecosystem: from bears, foxes, eagles, otters, up to all kinds…

too big, which is around 23ft, they release them and they become an invasive species in the Everglades. They have no venom but due to their length, they can squeeze the life out of a living thing. According to Burmese Python: Not the Ideal Pet, it states," Native to the grassy marshes…

Researchers estimate that around five million people visit the Grand Canyon yearly. When visitors first come to the Grand Canyon they start their tour at the South Rim. The South Rim is an overlook into the inner gorge of the Colorado River (“Grand Canyon National…