When the Wilderness goes Silent, The loss of National Forest and Wildlife
Ardell Phillip Latoma
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Identity
And then I went to school
This story comes from Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, This event happened in the narrator's life by Joe Sunia. Starts with talking about the pueblo life before electricity entered Pueblo homes and Vehicles were very rare to see. Everything was coming together he was a happy little boy that was raised by his grandparents and was taught to respect everyone in the pueblo even if you didn't know them. He was brought into a life were he only spoke his native language and was taught his tradition and culture. Then he was sent off to boarding school, once he went to to school he was struggling to balance boths world sand he was living in a very different world from what he was taught and both worlds were very different. He was disciplined by the teacher because he was different all the students were they would get rude comments on how messy and dirty they were. When he went home he was ungrateful for everything he was taught before going to the boarding school but it didn't take long for him to get used to it again.
And then I went to school - NowComment. (n.d.). NowComment. https://nowcomment.com/documents/90892
Sharing One Skin
Sharing One Skin is a article about the Okanagan culture and the way they carry themselves through the"four types of self". They strongly believe in their culture and traditions and they are strict on teach the younger generation so they don't lose their culture and the traditions and their way of life and they always follow the four types of self. The Okanagan people believe that if you follow and live by the four types and follow the rules and the ways of the Okangan culture and life your are one with yourself, mind, body, and spirit. You are one with the world and yourself. One thing that they also say that stuck to me is that you cannot lie to yourself nor you can't run away from your traditions, and culture but most importantly you can't run away from yourself and who you are.
How the Places name impacts the way we see the Landscape
The article talks about how the Dine people also know as Navajo people on how we need and should respect the landscape and that everything we go through in life we should always show respect. Also that when colonizers give these landscapes disrespectful names that should not be, They gave these landscapes names that remind the Navajos of how the horrible past that they were put through. Most of the landscape names were named after dead people or massacres and it just disrespects the landscapes and its beauty. The Non-Native people are finally starting to catch on the native ways and explain it to the world and they explain that it is just more than land and landmarks, it starts with the spiritual realm.
Oaster, B. ‘., & Oaster, B. ‘. (2024, January 24). How place names impact the way we see landscape. High Country News. https://www.hcn.org/issues/54-5/people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-we-see-landscape/
History
The History of Deforestation: The Past and Origins
Deforestation started over a thousand years ago and from there it dramatically altered the landscape around the world. It started with humans cutting down trees to make space for crops, livestock and human space. When Europeans colonized the Americas half of the woodlands were destroyed and decreased by a lot. As time went on more and more people started to take advantage of the Natural Resources and they started to experiment and grow the own trees putting non natural stuff in them so they would grow bigger and better for nature.
Bush, C. (2022, July 12). The History of Deforestation: the past and origins. Climate Transform. https://climatetransform.com/the-history-of-deforestation-the-past-and-origins/#:~:text=April%2021%2C%202022,of%20deforestation%20in%20the%20tropics.
How the Earth's Forest has changed since The Last Ice Age
How much forest around the world have we lost since the last ice age? Around 10,000 years ago the forest accounted for 6 billion hectares of land and forest on Earth that were habitable. As time went on we were seeing the forest decrease, almost 1 billion hectares of forest land and grassland were lost from 1900 to 1950 in a matter of 50 years. If we don't do something the effects of deforestation and climate change are willing to increase. We start talking about taking some action but we need 100 world leaders to go with this action and stick to it if they want to see better results. They are looking at how much natural resources we have lost also and how much we are taking granted for.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/04/forests-ice-age.
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Indians of North America: Conflict and Survival
When Europeans found North America they also found that American Indians were already living on a rich and vast land, seeing the rich land Europeans refused to share the land but instead took it for the Indians that were already on this land for thousand of years and force them to change their way of life. The relationship between Indians and Europeans is tragic and not understanding the people who were already living on the land. They viewed the Indians as different and not normal. They all wonder how they get here, Where did they come from a lot of questions were asked on how they live and how they survive. For the longest time Europeans have been trying to understand Native culture. For the Indians they refuse to let go of their culture, Europeans wanted to put the Indians through society education well others wanted to leave them alone and let them vanish under the white world. Federal government wanted to use the Indian land for homesteaders this did not benefit the American Indians . They were promised treaties, treaties that were broken and lost or even changed.
Current State of Issue
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The climate change as of 2022 has changed drastically and is not just affecting the forest and wildlife but also peoples lives, mostly the poorest county/tribes around the world affecting their water sources, sanitation, and health facilities. This climate change has affected every ecosystem from the high mountain ranges to low deep sea corals. They are also trying to come to conclusions on a way to stop climate change. This part is trying to come to a conclusion and how if we don't we might not have a future. They are investing in creating better life styles and working on improving, but however this is not enough to secure a liveable future. Instead of way's to get out of climate change people are adapting to climate change.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (2022b, June 7). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability - Full video [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDRxfuEvqGg
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Fg.11 Mountain Mornings, 2025
The Lost Forest/Nobel Peace Prize Shorts
Wildlife Biologist goes on a expedition to find a place that has not been touched by humans that is 250 feet straight up on this mountain side that is only accessible by climbing. On this expedition he wants to collect results on how healthy the land is and how much humans effect natural resources, He wants to sample everything soil, trees, plants, vegetation, even the animals and how they have evolved without human interference.
National Geographic. (2020, May 22). The Lost Forest | Nobel Peace Prize Shorts [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDoanNM7O_s
Good Fire, Bad Fire: Insole the race to restore American Forest
The simple reason is that people rely on natural resources and we think that the vast land forest healthy based off of looks, but we are not also seeing the danger of even more losing these forest and also that a dense forest my look more healthy but it also a more higher risk of damage to the environment, This also relates to poor forest management. Not all forest fires are bad some fires like prescribed burning is a way of helping these dense forests so they can withstand unnatural fires. They learned this technique from the native people they also said that is really does help out the forest, but a little at a time and sadly we don't have a lot of time left.
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Global Connections
Preserving Paradise
Dona Celedonia moved to the Osa Peninsula to make a life for herself and her family, To do this Dona had to cut down native trees to make a home, she felt so bad that she cut down natures beauty to make a home and start a life with her family. Years later she made a invitation profit called Osa Conservation and she planted 1700 native trees around her 22 acre land/property. The Osa Peninsula has many different types of habitats, Cloud Forests, Low-land Rainforest, Swamps, Mangroves, Freshwater and Coastal Lagoons that refuge thousand of species. However the Osa Ecosystem is very fragile and twice in the past has been on the verge of destruction. The Impacts that put the ecosystem at verge is cutting down trees and vegetation or panning the osa rivers for few dollars worth of gold. The Osa Peninsula once covered 75 percent of the country, systems stripped for timber, cattle and crops and less than a generation a fifth of the land remind covered in trees. During this time the government passed a law saying that it is prohibited to cutting down trees without any detailed management plan. For example if a company had reasonable information about cutting down trees for management reasons they would have to provide funds to plants new trees. After this law was passed the Costa Rican Forest double in the amount of trees. Also wildlife populations were began seeing rise, Wildlife that were previously hunted out are now coming back out.
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Alaska Big Spill, Can the Wilderness Heal
One of the biggest oil tanker spills happened on Alaska’s shorelines, A super tanker Exxon Valdez led to 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s exquisite. The sea and land was heavily impacted but also seabirds were dying by the thousands and if nothing was to clean up the oil scientist believe that the fish in the sea would perish next. When a reporter walked the shorelines he said “ I walked the shores that glittered black far as the eye could see”. Due to this incident a handful of vessels confronted the largest tanker spills in U.S history. With winter approaching Exxon closed its efforts to clean up the oil, which led to some reporters saying “did it do any good”. Researchers also say questioned Exxon if it stopped its efforts to early. State Officials had to say if the clean up had actually done more harm to the environment than good. They also say that the cleanup crossed a line from being good to harmful and Exxon wanted to test if nature would clean itself. Exxon a,so said that overtime the harsh winter storms and extreme waves would wash it away many researchers argued against this. To test this they created a second spill “ Our test shows large scales mortality in beach organisms after some hot-washes, They also concluded that the oil spillage would case impacts to the land disappear.
Citation:
Hodgson, Bryan. “Alaska’s Big Spill: Can the Wilderness Heal?” National Geographic/the Complete National Geographic/the National Geographic Magazine, vol. 177, no. 1, Jan. 1990, pp. 2–43, dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6610623.
Bringing Back European Bison
Around 10,000 years ago Bison firsted roamed the European Continent and their population was thriving, But during the eight century over hunting and habitat destruction that had all the bison move toward the east of Europe, where later royal kings would kill them on royal hunting grounds. Also during this time war was very common and active which would also led the bison to grow in smaller and fewer herds. In 1927 the wild herb of bison were taken in by zoos and breeding centers, reintroductions started happening in eastern europe in 1950 and is still going on to this present day. From just 12 bison surviving in zoos, they released 14 bison into the wild in June 2015 hoping that they would getting the populations thriving again after the 14 bison were released into the wild the next generation was bred. Researcher say that by 2025 that the population would be at 300. They also say that the biggest problem with these bison in europe is that it is unknown, which in this case would led the researchers saying “ there is not enough support for this animal’s conservation.
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