Coalition to Preserve and Grow » preserve area

Does anyone know of any decent/good forest preserves in the chicago area to throw a little girls birthday?

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:44:38 +0000

My daughter is turning one and I’m really trying to find a good place to throw her birthday at…

You have to go to the suburbs to find a decent preserve, but there are a few in Palos

http://maps.google.com/maps?rlz=1T4GGIK_enUS273US274&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=palos+forest+preserve&fb=1&gl=us&hq=palos+forest+preserve&hnear=0x880ee54d4ed5111b:0x7fd1f848c350e85d,Aurora,+IL&ei=62zeTa7pAqnr0gGX-pyeCg&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&resnum=4&ved=0CAQQtgMwAw

I’ve been to both of these and they do have decent hiking trail too, if you like that sort of thing. However that was 6-8 years ago, so I can’t guarantee they have been maintained.

Which is not an economic incentive that would help to preserve biological diversity?

admin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:39:05 +0000

Which is not an economic incentive that would help to preserve biological diversity?
a.) political commitment to protect organisms
b.) ecotourism
c.) charge fees for use of genetic resources
d.) reduce property taxes on land with protected wildlife habitat areas
e.) None of the above, all are economic incentives that support biological diversity

Screw the environment as most people need jobs. Biological diversity is some soft headed professors left wing altruistic views of a utopian world. Whoever is teaching this non sense never had a real job, had to work hard and has no feeling for people whatsoever. It must be an ivory tower, employment for life, tenured professor who never made the slightest contribution to this world in terms of education or production of a good. A fat city fool and leach who lives on tax payers money.

is there any way to PRESERVE ferns and other plants?

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:07:50 +0000

im making a ghillie hood and need to put ferns (because that is what is most around the area we play man hunt) and i need a way to preserve them so they dont dry up. i used to pick cat tails and spray hair spray on them so they didnt release their seeds and i was wondering if you could do something like that with ferns

You can try drying them and spraying with a fixative such as hair spray or lacquer, but ferns are very delicate, and the leaves will probably fall right off. How about synthetic ferns and greenery? Craft stores have some very realistic ferns that will hold up better than real ones. Or check out a fabric store. They have camoflage prints, or you could cut fabric of the right green into fern-like shapes. Hope this helps…

Why is Long Island important to preserve?

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:12:45 +0000

I’m doing a Natural Area project for Environmental Science, and one thing we have to mention is why Long Island, New York is important to preserve. I’ve been trying to find this somewhere online, but I just can’t find anything on it.

Anyone know? Thanks so much.

It is very important to preserve the green spaces on Long Island and to prevent these green spaces from having houses and building put up in their place.

Why is Long Island important to preserve?

admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:58:47 +0000

Anyone know? Thanks so much.

It is very important to preserve the green spaces on Long Island and to prevent these green spaces from having houses and building put up in their place.

Why is Long Island important to preserve?

admin — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:29:45 +0000

Anyone know? Thanks so much.

It is very important to preserve the green spaces on Long Island and to prevent these green spaces from having houses and building put up in their place.

would you choose a map that preserved area, distance, angles, or shape?

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:46:12 +0000

if you were to make a new world map for a high school and why?

depends on who needs that map.

area could be useful for putting in a new gym floor or carpet in library.

distance could used for decorating the front of the school for homecoming (measuring paper for banners)

angles could be used for an engineering class.

shape could be used for not getting lost in the halls or parking lot or fire exits.

What makes the Great Smoky mountains important to preserve?

admin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:11:40 +0000

obviously its great to preserve any natural areas we can but im looking for specific reasons

The mountains represent thousands of years of human history in the Applachians. Prehistoric peoples, Native Americans, American settlements, Civilian Conservation corps.

No other place in the United States of the same area has the same biodiversity. There are over 17,000 species of animals and 100 types of trees.

They are also one of the world’s oldest mountain ranges.

Give 2 reasons why the parks and preserve areas are important for humans.?

admin — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:14:48 +0000

This no means a stupid question as parks and reserves are extremely important in many ways.

Parks and reserves are ecosytems, they may be on land or in water, eg yellow stone national park, great coral reef.
Ecosystem management is commonly recognized as a process that aims to conserve major ecological services and restore natural resources while meeting the socioeconomic, political and cultural needs of current and future generations ). The principle objective of ecosystem management is the efficient maintenance, and ethical use of natural resources . Ecosystem management acknowledges that the interrelation of socio-cultural, economic and ecological systems is paramount to understanding the circumstances that affect environmental goals and outcomes . It is a multifaceted and holistic approach which requires a significant change in how the natural and human environments are identified. Several approaches to effective ecosystem management engage conservation efforts at both a local or landscape level and involves: adaptive management, natural resource management, strategic management, and command and control management.

2 reasons (there are heeps)
Economy————tourism
Biological…………maintain bio diversity in a given area.

An example would be say we have national park through which flows a river, That river flows downstream into dam which feeds water into local communities.If anything was to happen to water in the park (pollution) it would have impact firther on in the water supply (example over simplistic but used as an illistrative tool)

Diving in Manzanillo Cuba 2

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:23:14 +0000

This dive video is on El Toro Reef, a pristine location just off-shore from a local preserve area Alll depths range from 30 foot to up to 100 foot during our dive. Visibility was spectacular with a plethora of colored corals both large and small that must be seen to be appreciated. Some of the animal life included: Lion Fish, French Angels, Groupers, Schooling Wrasse, Parrot Fish of every description, Grunts, Yellowtail snappers, Flamingo Tongues, Sergeant Majors, Queen Angel and Gray Angels, Porkfish, Chreole Wrasse, Spiny Lobster, TrumpetFish, a very large Eagleray (10Ft across). Don’t forget the wide varieties of colorful large swaying florescent azure and green sponges plus thousands of unnamed other corals. This beautiful multi colored azure blue water diving has clarity up to 100 Ft visibility.

Duration : 0:5:18

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