The primary recreational opportunity in the planned project area is Keystone State Park which was created by the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The mills needed coke, partially burned coal, to make steel. To make coke, the coal companies needed to burn coal and quickly extinguish it requiring large amounts of water.…
Abandoning the Yucca Mt. project and founding another repository would be very costly. Is Yucca Mountain the only repository in the US?…
Wildcat Creek begins just east of Kokomo in Greentown and ends at the Wabash River in Lafayette. Wildcat creek is about 84 miles long. This creek consists of three different forks, the north fork, south fork, and middle fork. Each fork flows in a general east-west direction. On our field trip, we visited the south fork. This stream runs through many different types of land typography, such as cropland and forests as well as developed areas. There were many different types of rocks present along this creek.…
I invite you to explore Black Canyon on the western slope of the White Mountains, about 20 minutes east of Bishop, California. This obscure canyon is a highly colorful, deep slash in the earth that keeps its many charms secret to all but a handful of Eastern Sierra visitors. It is an easily accessible location that does not involve a scary, butt-clenching drive on the brink of a thousand-foot drop into the abyss.…
The Sipsey wilderness fits two of the ten UNESCO criteria for international heritage status. It fits criteria nine and ten. “(ix) to be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. And (x) to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation (The Criteria for Selection.)”…
Mount Rushmore is a mountain located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. South Dakota is placed in the Midwestern region of the United States. This incredible sculpture portrays the faces of four esteemed presidents, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. They symbolize this nation's rich history.…
The Little Grand Canyons rim was built by the erosion from the farm from when it rained the soil was washing a way very slowly, and that's why they call it the little grand canyon. The Little Grand Canyon use to be a big cotton field. Where farmers had huge cotton farms until it the little grand canyon formed. The little grand canyon can be found in Stewart County. But what use too be like little trenches became a great big canyon. Right in the middle of the farmers field. It was the same exact field that the farmers grew there cotton. The Park to the Little Grand Canyon is just about 7 miles west of Lumbkin, Ga. The Little Grand Canyon is more than 1,108 acres long and more than 500 acres long.…
Like any formal writing, the beginning is equally important as the end. In order to appreciate the present, the past needs to be understood. Knowing the journey of where I grew up from the beginning to present day is amazing. It’s hard to believe there was a time in my hometown, Iron Mountain, Michigan, where electricity didn’t exist nor did the everyday tools we now take for granted. I often wonder what the city looked like to my grandparents and their family before them.…
There’s no deficiency of special testimonies about great moms, but there’s one that will continually be most important, and that’s your mother. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother (Abraham Lincoln). She will hug you when you're sad, feed you when you’re hungry, and patch you up when you’re hurt. This is a memoir of a strong-willed, successful, and caring woman.…
Mountain top removal (MTR) is slowly destroying the environment and reshaping the way that Appalachia has looked for thousands of years. Over 500 mountains have been flat lined to provide mountain top coal mines. (Amy, n.d.) If this process was happening in a more upscale part of the country then it might be a bigger issue and draw more attention to the need for change. Most of West Virginia relies solely on coal mining to be its biggest export and one of the very few jobs…
Mount Rushmore may be a national wonder to many, however to the Native Americans, it's a disgrace to their culture. The monument is located on what was considered the holy land for most Native Americans. The Sioux knew the place as "Six Grandfathers”, but was changed to Mount Rushmore after a New York attorney named Rushmore asked what the mountain was called. The original vision of Mount Rushmore was to include four completely different faces; George Custer, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Chief Red Cloud. Instead, they carved four famous presidents' faces into the stolen mountain. The story of this mountain is a tragic one, considering that this was a holy land, protected by one of the US's "trusty" treaties. The mountain that's so wonderful…
The Great Smoky Mountains landform is mostly sedimentary rocks that were formed by the accumulation of sand, clay, silt, sand, gravel, and minor amounts of calcium carbonate in flat-lying layers. According to The Great Smoky Mountain’s website, about 545 million years ago the sediments were formed and large amounts of those sediments were washed down into lowland basins from adjacent highlands. The colliding between the edge of the North American tectonic plate and the African tectonic was a huge cause of the creation of The Great Smoky Mountain landform. It was discovered that incredibly long and active geologic events were found in the rocks of the smoky mountains. There was a specific…
In Uneven Ground, the author Ronald D. Eller narrates the economic, political, and social change of Appalachia after World War II. He writes “persistent unemployment and poverty set Appalachia off as a social and economic problem area long before social critic Michael Harrington drew attention to the region as part of the “other America” in 1962.”(pp.2) Some of the structural problems stated by Eller include problems of land abuse, political corruption, economic shortsightedness, and the loss of community and culture; personally view the economic myopia as being the most daunting.…
The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, is a footpath in the eastern United States for outdoor enthusiasts, extending about about 2140 miles from Maine to Georgia, along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. The trail passes through 14 states and is maintained by 34 different trail maintenance organizations. It is the longest marked, continuous footpath in the world, at some points reaching elevations of more than 6000 feet. Wooden signposts and white paint marks on rocks and trees are placed along the trail. Construction of the Appalachian Trail was begun in 1922 near Bear Mountain, New York.…
When it comes to choosing classes for a semester I always try to choose an enjoyable class. One where I know I will not have to stress over tests and homework. Last semester was weight training. This semester as I was browsing I stumbled upon a class titled Geology 270. This class caught my attention right away. I looked at the course description and read it. The thing that stood out the most was that in this class we would study the geology of the eastern Sierra Nevada in one of the most unique ways one could think of, a 3 day field trip. I have never been camping and I thought this would be the best way to do it for the first time. I figured since I would go with teachers and other students it would be both fun and educational. I was not wrong. So, I signed up for the class and signed up my sister for it too. The day of the field trip came quickly.…