Conservation and Preservation Bridger Teton National Forest is rightfully considered by many people as national treasure, which needs to be protected. However, we need to understand the difference between national parks and national forests. The creation of national parks is meant to preserve the unique environmental balance in uninhibited areas that contain rare flora and fauna. This is why; there can be absolutely no mining or logging activity in American national parks. The Bridger Teton National Forest, on the other hand, allows a whole spectrum of activities to take place within its borders, for as long as these activities are environmentally friendly. People visit Bridger Teton National Forest for both recreational and commercial purposes. Even though that there were a lot of controversies going on in recent years, in regards to whether Bridger Teton National Forest should be conserved in its present state with the mean of restricting logging and mining practices in the area, I think that people who promote such ideas do not understand that the amount of natural resources on Earth is limited.
Therefore, it is only the matter of time, before Bridger Teton National Forest is going to become a subject of commercial activity. However, it does not mean that forest cannot be preserved. In fact, commercial logging often proves to be beneficial, when it comes to maintaining a steady environmental balance in wooded areas. The same can be said about mining. The environmental damage that mining might cause in Bridger Teton National Forest is going to be insignificant, especially when we remember that building a mine always attracts financial investments that benefit local communities, which in its turn, results in conservation and preservation policies becoming more effective. There can be no doubt that humans can harvest forest resources in an environmentally friendly way, because they have already proven themselves capable of doing that. It is important to understand that Bridger Teton National Forest can serve people in variety of different ways. We can do hunting and fishing there, while enjoying the nature, and we can also use forests resources to increase the standards of our living. It is simply a right thing to do.
The Essay on Tuskegee National Forest
The 11,000 acres now known as the Tuskegee National Forest was originally a vast cotton field, home to sharecroppers. These sharecroppers planted cotton each year until the soil was no longer fit for yielding crops. This incidence caused the sharecroppers to relocate to Shorter, Alabama. This also allowed those same 11,000 acres to be established as the Tuskegee National Forest. Much of the forest ...
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Casper Star Tribune.Net. Retrieved October 22, 2007 from http://www.casperstartribune.com/articles/2007/05/ 25/news/wyoming/f2ca2e500803d81.txt Abstract: This paper discusses reasons why mining and logging should be allowed in Bridger Teton National Forest. Outline: Preservation and Conservation P. 1.
