Changes to the water, air and land in coal country have caused trouble for vast amounts of biodiversity in the region. The biodiversity of the Appalachian headwater streams is second only to the tropics. The southern Appalachian mountains are home to the greatest diversity of salamanders on the globe, accounting for 18% of the known […]
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I’ve been home in Long Valley, New Jersey on spring break from the University of Delaware for a week now. Long Valley can only be defined as the epitome of Suburbia. The American Dream at its finest can be found here. A town 97.6% white, with single family housing sitting on individual plots of land […]
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The Restorative Power of Nature
Last semester, I went on a field trip with my Environmental Humanities class to Muddy Run Recreational Reservoir in Lancaster County, PA. We went canoeing, tested the water quality, and did the “Macro Shuffle” to find macro-invertebrates in a nearby stream. My friend Nikki and I found a fairly large crayfish during our shuffling. Finding […]
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