Three Sisters Wilderness

There is no need to live outside our needs and take more than we can use. This can also be seen in Stegner's Wilderness Letter which outlines the fact that, so long as we can see into the wilderness, we as a species know we have done good. However, the way Stegner goes about this main point in Living on Our Principle ends up being a little different. It seems that Stegner is trying to get his point across…

who like it showed in Into the Wild who could not even last one night in a shelter. This truly showed how detached from society McCandless was. McCandless’s detachment also shows how much he had to lose because imagine living on your own in the wilderness then at the end of your journey realizing how nothing changed and deciding to finally head back. This would have caused such a struggle for any individual to overcome . Now if you add McCandless’s childhood trauma this would have been…

In Cole Dowdy's essay "Somebody to Lean On", he talks about everyone needing someone in the world no matter who they are. In his essay, he said, "right then, I came to believe that everyone needs someone to lean on. Whether it's a mother and a child, two inseparable friends, a husband and a wife, or even a dog and its owner. Everyone needs someone to rely on in this life. We cannot live life alone." While reading this excerpt I immediately thought about Chris. His entire journey was him…

Survival is for the strong, smart, and the creative without these things there is no way for you to survive. In Gary Paulsen’s book, “Hatchet”, a thirteen year old boy traveling to see his dad suddenly the worse happens and the pilot has a heart attack. Whenever the pilot had a heart attack he shifted the plane and it threw Brian off course. Brian had to survive in the Canadian forest for fifty four days and the only valuable thing he had was his hatchet his mom gave to him right before he got…

Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild to capture Chris McCandless’s dream of freedom in the wilderness. In his book, Krakauer tells about Chris McCandless and his life of adventure. Believing he was living a dull life, Chris wanted to go out into the word and experience what nature had to offer. Chris McCandless walked into happiness in that he liberated himself from emotionally charged human interaction; he was finally free, and he was able to experience adventure through the wild. Even though he…

Environmental Law is something that the USA once pioneered on and then slowly began to fall behind on. Environmental Law may not be one of the oldest type of laws but it is one of the most complex. There are laws that are then regulations that are controlled and fulfilled by an agency. There are many steps, layers and systems that make it a difficult area to comprehend and learn. On top of that the world is changing and science is evolving making changes more prevalent and seen as vital.…

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…

Leatherstocking Tales Set in colonial New York in the 1750’s, The Leatherstocking Tales tells the epic tale of Hawkeye, a European young man raised by Native-Americans and his odyssey in the forest where he encountered many Natives and became engaged in a battle of the French and Indian War. The novel series by James Fenimore Cooper signifies the difficulty of being the bridge between two worlds. Hawkeye lived in the forest amongst the people the settlers called savages, but considered himself…

In “Albert Bierstadt and the White Mountains”, The White Mountains played a greater part in the formation of Bierstadt's art than is usually assumed, and his curiosity about nature continued for much of his life. Also during this time, Bierstadt’s art was also influenced throughout his life by his interest in photography, which was initiated by his partnership with Peter Fales during their time on expeditions. On Bierstadt’s first Western trip, from April to November of 1859, Bierstadt…

Throughout Salva's personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader. Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was…