In the article What you can do to help prevent climate change, according to experts? they talk about "Solutions to halt the ongoing damage are already available, such as using renewable energy, restoring ecosystems, doing regenerative farming..." These are some solutions to bad logging and farming practices which are unsustainable and unsuitable for a healthy relationship with an ecosystem.
These logging practices lead to deforestation, and in extreme cases inhabitable land. A good example of unsustainable logging and farming and the aftermath of it would be the great dust bowl of 1930 which lasted a decade and made the land inhabitable and not suitable for farming. They can also lead to dangerous interactions with wildlife. For example the deforestation in India has driven the Indian leopard into towns to find food. This is a dangerous situation and is driving the Indian leopard and other species to the point of being endangered or even worse extinct.
What can we do to prevent these things from happening? Well sustainable forestry will allow loggers to harvest trees without wiping out the forest. This allows loggers to harvest small acre amounts and instead of cutting down all the trees they only harvest the bigger and older trees leaving the smaller to mid sized trees to grow. When you are farming crops on a large scale it is best to do a crop rotation annually or every two years. This is because different crops need different nutrients and a crop rotation allows the nutrients a chance to replenish and keeps the soil healthier. Having a crop rotation also reduces the risk of diseased crops. So you will get a better crop yield when you have a crop rotation. This keeps a healthy environment for farming and forestry.
Hi Sam, Are there any laws or acts currently you read that can help make either the logging process or bad farming practices more beneficial to the environment?
ReplyDeleteSam, what is standing in the way of farmers using sustainable farming practices right now? Is there a reason that more places don't use crop rotation?
ReplyDeleteSam, I like how you show right off the bat that you know a lot about farming and how you prove that your source is reliable. I also like the fast facts to make sure the reader knows what your talking about.
ReplyDeleteWhat would happen if Logging wasn't regulated? Could it completely warp the landscape and the population of wildlife living in the logging site? How can the Gov't make logging less harmful for the environment as well, are there any regulations and codes loggers need to pass in order to start logging?
ReplyDeletei like how you got to the point fast right in the beginning and showed you knew prior knowledge on it
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