Friday, April 30, 2010

The Importance of Taxa Diversity in an Ecosystem Includes Top Predators such as WOLVES

The Introduction of large human populations have been sculpting this planet for at least 10,000 years as we swept across continents applying our will on the environment often at the cost of other organisms' lives.  In the recent past we removed wolves from Yellowstone Park for our benefit.  It has taken the minds and will of those who love this plant to understand the Wolf's importance, and they have brought wolves in 1995.  How has this changed our National treasure?  Read the following article, but I'll give you a hint to who is enjoy the reprieve.  Birds!  Yes, birds are enjoying the wolf for many reasons.

http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/inter_mgmt/yellowstone.pdf


While this introduction is vigilantly being studied due to all of its implications, to me it begs the question of how non-wild should we make the wild, and if we allow it to be wild, as it should be, how removed should we be forced to be for our own protection?

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Insomnia is the best!!

There's nothing like having a grip of energy right before bedtime!!!  It leads to hours of endless fun doing nothing!!!  I mean everybody is asleep, and anything productive gets thrown out the window in order to find useless ways to absorb time until either the sun rises or sleep comes!!  To make matters worse I think Milo can tell I can't sleep as sprinting in and out of the room diving up and off the bed is his attempt at making me count sheep!  freaking BIRDBRAIN, lol.  btw, do not try an amuse yourself finding funny things about insomnia.  Apparently its not funny, nor are the people who have it  ~@~