Exercise #3: Connecting Past and Present
Instructions
For Exercise #3, you will make connections between what you have learned in the course about the past and what is happening today through contemporary media.
- Find two recent media items thematically connected in some way to two of the three topics covered in Unit 3: conservation, parks, and urbanization. For each of these, post a paragraph of three to five sentences, connecting the media story to what you learned, or were challenged to consider, from the resources in Unit 3. Provide the web link to the article in each post.
- These postings may be informal but should be grammatically correct. You should be respectful of other students’ opinions, but that does not mean you must agree with their ideas.
- Post your response by clicking ‘Add Submission’ below.
- Then post two separate comments responding to any other student’s posts.
- Please note, you should write and edit your submission in a separate file then copy and paste it into the submission box. Once submitted to the HIST 3991 trubox site, you will not be able to edit your post.
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Submissions
Conservation and the Parks Movement
August 26, 2022 By: T00472990
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/12/opinion/indigenous-led-conservation-signals-path-forward-canadas-first-marine-protected This article ties in with the conservation and parks movement and shows how the Haida Nation and the national government are beginning to work together to protect special areas. One thing to look at is that area is a conservation area, not a preservation area. However, significant attempts are being made to restore the ecological environment in the oceans around Gwaii Haanas. This is an example of joint decision-making and cooperative management of an area. https://www.haidagwaiiobserver.com/news/sgaan-inghlas-bowie-seamount-marine-area-receives-renewed-protection/ This is the continued discourse regarding conservation and protected areas. Limiting groundfishing in the area will allow species like corals and sponges to…
Exercise 3
August 11, 2022 By: Hstanhope
Topic 1: Conversation Whale migrations: how new UN treaty aims to protect species on the high seas (theconversation.com) There is still truly little information regarding the travels of whales in the ocean and many scientists still do not fully understand why whales take these migrations across the world. Most parts of the oceans are not under protection, increasing the number of whale threats in the open ocean, such as fisheries and climate change. In chapter 9, it sheds light on how all the elements of an ecosystem are connected and function together; how slight changes can drastically increase the consequences….
Environmental History and the News
August 8, 2022 By: Mathew Semograd
History 3991 News Articles https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/abundant-canada-geese-populations-threat-ecosystems-1.6507555 National symbol or national pest? Abundant Canada geese populations a threat to ecosystems, research finds Social Sharing The Canadian Goose is a national symbol but now due to increased industrialization and urbanization, the number of geese are exploding and causing problems in marsh lands along the Fraser river but also in many areas across North American due to the birds ability to eat large amounts of grass and plants and the waste they leave behind. “According to research out of the University of British Columbia, non-native Canada geese are overpopulating the banks of the Fraser…
Connecting past and present
July 19, 2022 By: Sarah Greene
“Log supply in BC forests slowly dwindling, think tank warns” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-centre-for-policy-alternatives-bc-logs-1.6419399 This article discusses a calculation made by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives that indicates that the amount of harvested wood expected over the coming years will be about half the amount that was logged 15 years ago. Due to government policies that allowed large amounts of forests to be harvested, in large part due to the pine beetle disaster, the amount of trees available has severely declined. Unit 3 Topic 1 identifies the early lumber industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which depleted the forests…
Exercise #3 Submission
July 13, 2022 By: Zoë
Media item #1: Fairy Creek Blockades. Link: https://thenarwhal.ca/topics/fairy-creek-blockade/ On Vancouver Island, located in Western British Columbia, thousands of people have joined together to protest Teal-Jones plans to cut Fairy Creeks old-growth forests. Through the public and Indigenous nations objection’s, logging in this area has been halted for a couple of years. Sustainable forestry conservation has been an ongoing fight for over one hundred years. Some forestry conservation has been for the wrong reasons, as noted in our Steinberg textbook, “what was being conserved was not so much the natural world, but a socioecological order that produced monumental material…