Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Can you put this in your own words?

I just got done writing a 5 page essay, and im having a brain malfunction...I know its wrong to ask you guys for help, but I really neeed help please.----%26gt;



Habitat Loss and Degradation. The forests of the North Cascades ecoregion are a rich resource, and forests underpin much of Washington鈥檚 identity and economy. Forest management practices on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and on private forestlands continue to evolve in response to research on methods and productivity and to regulations and incentive programs. Legacies from the region鈥檚 history of supplying timber to a wood-hungry nation and world include younger stands, changes in forest dynamics, and landscape alterations.



Stands throughout the lower elevations of western Washington, including the North Cascades, have been harvested in the past 100鈥?50 years. Most old-growth forest has been harvested鈥攐nly about 3% of western Washington forests are presently in this age class.



Forest composition and dynamics in the North Cascade have changed in response to several management practices, including clearcut logging, plantation forestry, and fire suppression. Clearcut logging and plantation forestry (primarily of economically choice Douglas-fir) lead to less diverse tree canopies and forest stands. Fire, an occasional but integral part of the ecosystem, was formerly seen as destructive to timber resources. The resulting fire suppression has led to increased fuel loads and risk of catastrophic fires. Management practices are shifting to allow fire a role in the ecosystem. However, a factor that complicates letting natural fires burn is the increasing human population on the wildland interface.Can you put this in your own words?
Whilst I can put it into my own words, I can't put it into your own words. Consequently, as you can see, there's an insoluble conceptual difficulty.

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