Shorty

=About Me=



My name is Dylan. I love listening to music and hanging with friends. People call me Shorty because i am only 5'4" and I'm in eleventh grade. My best friend Kali was just playing tetris and jamming to some tunes.

=Uses of the Allegheny National Forest=

The Allegheny National Forest is good for wood supply, hunting, and huge oil supply, The Allegheny National Forest also is a great place to vacation, the park is only 40 miles away from the very first crude oil well in the entire world. During the 1800s and 1900s early European settlers moved here to clear some land and start a colony. The settlers cut timber to send East for the settlers that were moving toward the Eastern region of the United States. Between 1850 and 1900, the settlers in Kinua, Warren, or Bradford, all in Pennsylvania, had decided to use railroads for transportation of supplies, and for people. In 1964 the Wilderness Act was established, stating that most scientists and forest managers should work together to keep the forests healthy and and animal population stable.

=Total population use in the Allegheny Forest= - Nature-based land activities 1. Day Hiking 2. visit a wilderness or primitive area 3.mountain biking

- Viewing/learning activities 1. view/photography natural scenery 2. sightseeing 3.visit historic sights

- Developed-setting land activities 1. picnicking 2. walk for pleasure 3. driving for pleasure

- Water-based activities 1. swimming in an outdoor pool 2. visit a beach 3. canoeing

- Snow/Ice-based activities 1. downhill skiing 2. snowboarding 3. snowmobiling

=Across the US=

Explore one of the geographic regions of the US as a group. Find the following:
 * 1) What are some environmental problems there?
 * 2) What are 4 resources produced or found there?
 * 3) What are some of the economic issues there?
 * 4) What groups would have a say in environmental or economic issues?

> List some of the ways that areas are coping with water shortages and making water available. People with water shortages are making their showers shorter, saving dish water to wash dishes later instead of using more water, they are washing clothes less and re-using them if they're not that dirty, They are saving water for drinking and eating throughout the day, people are not washing their cars or watering their gardens as often.
 * Individual work: Place this on your Individual page and and label "water shortages" (use heading 1)**
 * 1) Look at some of the articles on this site http://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=water

More people go to bigger streams and rivers, rather than going to a smaller stream. Higher population with bigger streams, lower population at the smaller streams. Hills and mountains are where the small streams are, valleys and plateaus are where big streams are. The drainage divide is the outside edge of the watershed. Point Source - Pollution is being dumped right in a specific area. (garbage bag thrown into a creek.) Non-Point Source - Not dumped directly in a specific area. (putting fertilizers on the grass, dumping oil on the ground.) Acid Rain - Rain that has a pH lower than normal. (gases released in the air mix with H2O vapor.)

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4. Is global warming changing something every second of the day? Yes, global warming is melting the icebergs every single day, so therefore the polar bears are in danger of extinction.

5. How will it change the climate or weather? Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere will increase rapidly over the next century unless greenhouse gas emissions decrease a lot from there current levels. the temperature will change, precipitation, and storms will occur, and sea levels will change.

6. How will it change our way of living? Global Warming will change our way of life, because modern technology will be converted to the hybrid way of life, people will have to start being greener and recycle more, and use less appliances.







=Essay Topics=

1. What other schools are doing it?

2. What other people think - Other people think that saving energy is a fantastic idea in today's economy.

3. How we can save energy - We can save energy by turning off the lights when we are not in the room, or at home.

=Energy Essay= Many people in the world are trying to save energy and money, by turning off the lights and unplugging electronic devices when they are not needed. Since summer is here, more and more people will be turning down their heat and turning off the lights because the sun is shining and the weather is getting nicer. Lately the weather has been in the mid 80's, and heating and lighting have not been needed. In school, we use a lot of energy because we leave the lights on in the gymnasium's, in the bathrooms, and hall ways. We interviewed the janitor at our school where the most electricity is lost, and he said that we waste a lot of electricity after school because the lights stay on for extra curricular activities, and during the winter there were doors that were left open and heat was wasted. To change this, we could make sure that the doors are closed during the winter, and lights are off most of the time during summer. Check out how to go green on this link--[]

=**Land Use Essay:**= I believe that the focus of the overall land use in the US should be on keeping our state parks and lands. The reason for this is because too many forests are being cleared, and there are too many people littering. If we focused on keeping our state parks and lands clean, we could make our state more popular and more people will want to visit the parks. It is also very important to keep the plant and animal population going, keep it high.

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