POST #2

Modern culture that we have all become accustomed to does not come with out a price. The price that we pay may not exactly be noticeable off hand but when you look deeper and deeper into the environment you can see the destruction that our 1^st world countries are implementing or 3^rd world countries and their jungles. I feel that with almost every action there is an equal reaction. An example of this would be that in certain areas rivers are harnessed for their power to supply electricity to thousands of people, in return thousands of animals are losing their homes due to flooding. It is not only the smaller defenseless animals but even the larger predators losing their homes. Although this may be part of the reason that predators are not populated as much as they use to be, another reason is that humans have been removing, killing, and shunning away the predators for safety reasons. This may seem like a good idea but at the same time it allows their pray to run wild, become over populated, and to cause damage and stress to property.

            People may feel that these predators do nothing for them and do no good for the environment but that is far from the truth. In 1970 the wolf was placed on the endangered list and the environment began to show the change and the good that the wolf once did. Yellow stone national park is a great example of the good that a wolf can do. The park was beginning to have a diminishing number of aspen and willow trees that supplied many nutrients to the environment. Once wolves were reintroduced into the park number of trees began to increase and this is thought to be because the wolves hunted the elk that were eating and diminishing the shrubs. With the growth of the new trees and shrubs beavers are now able to rebuild their huts which create more water in an area along with extra nutrients.