Coyote Bounty

In the winter of 1985, There was reports of wolf-like dogs coming ashore from the ice near the Port au Port Peninsula. The first confirmed coyote on the Island of Newfoundland was a pup hit by a car near Deer Lake in 1987. By the mid 1990s, coyotes were found throughout most of the Island. The winters of 2005-2006, there were 19 coyotes were captured and radio transmitters were put on them so they could be tracked. Some coyotes moved around a lot more then they thought. One moved 170 km from the place they tagged it, and another one moved 110 km from the place they tagged it. Today there is a bounty on coyotes so people could kill them. The reason why there is a bounty put on these coyotes is because they are killing off a lot of our moose and caribou and if we don't do anything about it the coyote will be over populated.

I totally agree with the bounty on these animals because if theres nothing done with them they will be over populated and then they will become a huge problem because they would be in the community's attacking people when they run out of resources in the forest.

URL: Env sci textbook unit 2

Snowmobile Engines

In our province today we use snowmobiles all winter long and a lot of us use them. today there are 4-stoke engines on the market. These engines are improvements to a 2-stroke engine because they burn less fuel and they release a lot less pollution in the air from the fumes. Just imagine if 200 2-stroke snowmobiles in a area burnt 25 letters of fuel and 1/3rd left the exhaust unburned. That would be a total of 1650 litres of fuel released into the environment in one day. Not counting the fumes that would be released. What do you think should happen to snowmobile engines? Should they stay 2-stroke or should the be 4-stroke?

Personally I think that I would rather a 2-stroke snowmobile then a 4-stroke because the 2-stroke has more power and it is a lot lighter then the 4-stroke. On the other hand I think that there should only be 4-strokes because they burn less fuel and they put off a lot less emissions then the 2-stroke engine. also in our situation with global warming today we should be worried about our ozone and what we are doing with it.

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Forest Pest Control

Forest all over Canada today are being attacked by pest such as the spruce bud worm. when these bugs come in over a number of areas it doesn't take long for them to wipe out a forest. For example when I was ski-dooing this winter I saw a area where bugs have Eaton all the trees to death, The area was at least 2km squared. We have to control these pests from eating our forest there are many ways we can do it but it cost to much money and it's a lot of work to save Canada's forest.

one way that we could save our forest is to find a chemical that will kill the bugs not just frighten them away. also if we do that we would have to find something that wouldn't harm the trees. When we have found the right chemical we could spray the area that the bugs are eating the trees and try to solve the problem.

URL: http://www.bugwood.org/pestcontrol/insects.html

Tuckamore Forest

The tuckamore forest are small stunted evergreen trees with gnarled
spreading roots, forming closely matted ground-cover on the barrens. It is mostly found along the coastal areas, and on higher elevations. The tuckamore forest have most of the oldest individuals on the island. The tuckamore forest has adapted to our environment by being able to grow in acward paterens for example the tuckamore trees grow along the shoreline and salt from the sea kills the trees. So they have adapted to our enviroment by growing in a diretcion that there is no salt hitting the tree.

URL: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nl/grosmorne/natcul/natcul5_e.asp

Monongah Mining Disaster

The worst mining disaster in American History occurred in the community of Monongah, West Virginia on December 6, 1907. Around 10 o'clock in the morning after a full force of 380 men and boys had begun their shift, mines number 6 and 8 of the Consolidated Coal Company shook from the impact of an underground explosion. A total of 362 men and boys lost there lives.

The mines were connected above ground by a steel bridge over the West Fork River and underground tunnels. An enourmous cave-in closed the main entrance of number 6 the main opening was blocked by two strings of ore cars and two electric dynamo motors. The underground structure was twisted into a mass of rock, wood and metal. The explosion destroyed the ventilation systems causing a deadly build up of gases trapped in the mines. The poisonous fumes flowed trough the mines causing rescuers to work in relays as they had no protective devises, such as gas masks and could only work in the deadly atmosphere for fifteen minutes before resurfacing. Fires in mines number 6 and 8 created an additional hazard of smoke, and flames which increased the problems involved in the rescue attempt. The fire started on December 8th in the main entry of mine number 6 around midnight and the second fire started in mine number 8 shortly after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, delaying rescue work. By 1908the coal mine operators were starting to recognize that an unsafe mine was costly and unproductive. In 1909 the Engineering & Mining Journal stated that accident showed lack of efficiency and production in a mine and lack of productivity would result in lack of profitability so the closed down the mine in 1910.

Mining is a very dangerous job but there are may ways that we could make them more safe to work in. The main problem with this mine was that it wasn't safe enough to work in. I think when underground mines are made they should be made with more exits then one, because no one knows when that one exit can collapse and kill hundreds of people. I know that it would take more time and money to do this but it would be better then people dieing.
URL: http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/mining.htm