jamesn

toc =About me=

I am a junior in high school. In my free time i like to hunt and play hockey. After i graduate, i'm going to a master gunsmiths school in Pittsburgh.



Uses of the Allegheny forest. The Allegheny national forest lies in the heart of Pennsylvania's oil and gas region. The forest can be used for timber. The Allegheny national forest is also used for camping and other different outdoor activities. The forest is also used for hunting and fishing. The forest gave jobs to loggers to cut down the trees. in 1911, the week act was passed. Tanneries used hemlock bark for three sources of heat for the animal hides. Between 1850 and 1890, technology came into the world. The forest covers over 500,000 acres. The Kinzua dam is part of the forest. The top three nature land-based activities are day hiking, visiting a wilderness or primitive area, and visiting a farm or agricultural setting. Other land-based activities are driving off-road, small game hunting, or big game hunting. The top three viewing/learning activities are to view/ photograph natural scenery, visit nature centers, etc. and sightseeing. The top three developed-setting land activities are to walk for pleasure, family gathering, and to have a picnick. The top three water-based activities are swimming in an outdoor pool, swimming in lakes, streams, etc. and to visit a beach. The top three snow/ice-based activities are any type of snow/ice activities (any type), downhill skiing, and snowmobiling.

=Water shortages=

Look at some of the articles on this site http://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=water List some of the ways that areas are coping with water shortages and making water available.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=top-10-water-wasters

=Types of Pollution- Activity A= 1. What places did you look at and what were the pollution problems there?

1. Adrian, Pa.-- Allegheny Energy Supply Armstrong Power Station
2. Petrolia, Pa.-- Sonneborn Inc Petrolia Plant 3. Total Env Solutions Inc STP East Side 4. Philipsbug-- Houtzdale Regional WPCF- 28 violations 5. International Waxes Farmers

Places outside of Pennsylvania. 1. Iowa- Iowa Dot Maintenance Garage Correctionville2. 2. Minnesota- Amer Cry Sugar E Grand Forks4. 3. Nebraska- Ne Game & Parks Rock Creek State Fish Hatchery 4. Texas- Southwest Energy Distributors, Inc. 5. Oregon- Warm Springs Forest Products (On Tribal Land)

2. Discuss in your group the various places you chose. What common pollutants/industries/problems exist among the area? You may need to discuss them as rural vs. city issues. Pollutants- Industry- Houtzdale Regional WPCF had 28 effluent violations. Problems- sewage and waste.

3. Are these pollutants or problems point source or non-point source pollution problems?

=Activity B=

An example of nonpoint source pollution can be found here: Litter and debris in water ways

Trash island Birds are dying because they are eating the trash. People dumped unknowingly realizing the consequences Everything is affected because the drinking water is polluted and not healthy for the living organisms. -correctly dispose of hazardous cleaning materials - dispose of drugs correctly -use non-toxic materials if possible -recycle trash, garbage and plastic -conserve water, fix leaky plumbing
 * 1) Why is this a problem? How did it happen?
 * 1) How is human health, aquatic organisms, and other organisms affected? Give an example of organisms affected and the problems it is causing.
 * 1) What steps do you think need to happen in order to stop this from becoming a larger problem?
 * 2) Our households are a major problem of pollution. Read the articles here and there. What should people do to reduce water pollution that affects all of our water?

Why do -companies- -drill- for -oil- so much? Companies drill for oil so much now and days due to the fact that America is so reliant on oil that we consume so much of it that it is getting harder and harder to find sufficient enough oil pockets to even put a dent in the importation of oil barrels that America gets imported from. The Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge has sufficient enough oil that America could consume but there's debate on whether it's practical to drill there or not.

Sources: http://www.ecoworld.com/fuels/oil-drilling-in-alaska.html

How did -global warming- start?

What will happen to the -animals-?

=Car Comparison=



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The Ferrari is better on fuel economy because the displacement of the engine in the ferrari is less then the Challenger R/T Hemi. The challenger is a 5.9L and the Ferrari is a 4.3L. It won't take as much fuel to power the ferrari then it will to power the challenger R/T.

=Oil Is More Then Energy=

1. The gap between oil imports and exports is widening. More imports are coming in then oil imports are going out. 2. The U.S. spends around $1 billion a day overseas on oil instead of spending the funds in the country. 3. Oil reliance from Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Mauritania and other foreign countries could have serious negative impacts for our national security, environment and economy. 4. Because we sell so much oil, the U.S. is paying to finance and control other countries oil exchanges. 5. We consume so much oil that it is staring to contribute to another problem, climate change.



=Essay topics=

1. How can we save energy? we can turn out the lights, stop the dripping in the faucets, close the doors, turn the heating settings down, recycle, and get the students involved in saving and practicing saving energy. 2. What are other schools doing to save on energy? 3. What are the ideas on how to save energy?

Essay.

A couple of the problems that I've found on energy saving in the school was having the lights on when there is no one in the room using them. Another problem is not closing the doors when we walk through them to go outside.

On interviewing the High School Janitor, we asked him what the biggest energy waste in the high school was and he responded in saying that the biggest waste was leaving the doors on the outside of the building open instead of leaving them shut. He also said that leaving the lights on after school hours was a waste on energy. Even during the summer, he said that the lights are left on all day even when there is nobody in the building.

We should change it by putting signs up on the doors themselves saying not to leave them open, and we could just have signs up saying when you leave the room in which you had lights on that you need to shut them off. I also think that it would be a good idea to have motion sensor lights in the bathroom so they are not turned on unless someone is in the bathroom. What we could do to fix it is that we could inform the student body and the staff that it's imperative that we save on energy. That is necessary to the school if they really want to save on energy costs. We could fix the light problem by just not turning the lights on unless you really need them on to do something.

I saw in the energy audit that there were a lot of rooms in the school that were not being used and they still had there lights turned on.

Paragraph.

I believe the focus of the overall land use in the US should be for agriculture and keeping state parks and lands. I don't think that we need any more highways built in the United States. I think that rural areas should be left alone for wildlife to stay without their habitats getting destroyed. I also think that state reservations for parks should be left alone.

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