In my previous post, when I had said I went to the Grand Canyon for a week I had failed to mention there was a bad forest fire. When I had checked in at the Jacob’s Lake Lodge the woman at the front counter told me there was a fire started by some people in charge of the Grand Canyon National Forrest. Anywayz, there was a business man who was in charge of some free range cattle. Every year the people who are in charge of the park services do what they call “Controlled Fires”. In controlled fires they burn down sections of the forest, that way the new soil can come, and also it stops the over population of trees. The business man who was in charge of the cattle wanted to burn down a section of the forest so his cattle could graze upon the new grass coming from the soil once it was burned. In exchange for letting his cattle roam free, he would give those in charge of the park services a “Nice Sum” of money. So the the park services people, and the business man continued with their plans and set a section of the forest on fire just al little bit past Jacob’s Lodge. Well instead of the fire burning out itself like they had a orginally planned, it travelled 7miles in less than a couple hours. At this time they should have put out the fire, but no they just went home. When they woke up they discovered the fire had travelled more than 14miles. By now the fire was out of controll, in the end it had burned down more than 30 acres of forest. When my mom was driving past the burnde woods it looked like a bad dream. Also when we had stopped at Walhalla Glades, my mom fed a dear who’s fur looked like it had gotten singed off. It was so sad :( . Do you know how long it takes for a forest like that to replenish itself again? At least up to 100 years. Trees provide us with oxygen, places like the Grand Canyon, Red Wood Forrest, and the Amazon help our atmosphere. It took years for the Amazon rain forest to look as beautiful as it does now, but even that forest is dying. With global warming, greedy cattle owning business men, and a dying generation who care nothing about the Earth in itself; what will be left for future generations of children?
Many people around the world believe that in the “Allah” will destroy the Earth, but truly I think it will be people who will destroy the Earth. I have to wonder what will this world look like 150 years from now, or even 20 years from now. No matter what the outcome of the world will be when I die, and future generations are here to take care of it. People will only in the end have themselves to blame.