The Berenstain Bears

Stop Wildfires Before They Start. Wildfires have different names, such as forest fires, bushfires, and unplanned fires, which occur across the globe. Wildfires are an uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside area. Wildfires get pretty big in size and they can go at a very fast speed of fourteen miles per hour. Fire can change the speed and the direction at which it spreads out from its original source. It can be devastating because fire has the ability to…

*silence* Museum curator: Heh… well I think that’s a Teddy Bear! Wouldn’t…

The United States Forest Service was created at the turn of the twentieth century to help ensure the forest and lands of the US were taken care of. This was the first time leaders were chosen because of their knowledge of nature instead of some bureaucracy non sense. The Forest Service was staffed with university educated foresters chosen because of their expertise of the forest. Before the US Forest Service was formed politicians managed the land that belonged to the government and this was…

they attack it as a pack because it is too large for one wolf to attack. Arctic wolves are on the endangered list for a number of reasons. One is the predators that hunt them. In the tundra these wolves are sometimes eaten by snow leopards, polar bears, and foxes. Not very often do you find these wolves get hunted by other animals because of how tough and fierce they are. Most of the time, the are the hunters and not the…

Walter Payton The person that I would want to meet is Walter Payton. I picked Him because he is my idle and I love football. Walter was a NFL star. He played for the Chicago Bears. I love his autobiography ‘’Never Die Easy’’ He made it to the Hall of Fame. He is in the top 2 best running backs ever. I met Walter Payton at the bears field. It was the super bowl. I was watching him and there was a group of 3000 people. Walter said ‘’ hey do you want to go on the field?’’ I replied ‘’Yes!!!!’’ I…

Canada’s First Nations People Similarities and Differences By: Zoe Gardner Did you know Canada’s first nations people may have arrived in Canada at least 18,000 to 20,000 years ago? There were hundreds of tribes scattered all across Canada, all different with some similarities. The focus of this essay is to compare and contrast three different first nations peoples, the Inuit of the Canadian arctic, the Haida of the Canadian Pacific coast, and the Iroquois of the Great Lakes…

The national landscapes in the United States are some of the most abundant and well-managed regions in the world. They provide our country with ample resources and aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-cultural values. Unfortunately the effects of climate change are deteriorating our national forests. Drier summers and wetter winters are already affecting regions in the West, causing projections for forest fires to increase in severity, frequency, and scale. Forest fire management policies have…

Ice Fishing Ice fishing began as a means of sustenance for people living in some of the coldest conditions on the planet. Over the years, ice fishing has become a very popular winter activity. Ice fishing can be done just about anywhere lakes and in some cases rivers freeze thoroughly enough to support the weight of a fisher and his equipment. In places like Canada and the Great Lakes region of the United States, locations in European countries like Germany and Russia, and Nordic nations like…

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo suffered a fractured bone in his back as he tired to make a play against the Seattle Seahawks in Week 3 of the preseason. Reportedly, the injury could keep him out for six to 10 weeks of the regular season. In an interview on KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan in Dallas on Tuesday, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones stated that Romo would remain on the active roster when they open the season against the New York Giants this Sunday. Jones added that he was “not really” interested…

Polar Bears vs. Oil Drilling According to National Geographic in 2008, “The Endangered Species Act" has listed polar bears as threatened everywhere in the world they occur. Polar bears can only survive in areas where the oceans freeze" (National Geographic 2008). This decrease in population is a result of oil drilling in the arctic. The negative effects of oil drilling have spread to habitat loss, consumption of health declining chemicals, and impacts on polar bear family life/ birth rates.…