Thinking Like A Mountain

Today I read a very interesting chapter from a book it was called Thinking Like A Mountain and it was by Aldo Leopold. The article gets at the hart of how we view predators and how they effect there habitat.

 It was about how he shot a wolf in a time were they where viewed as bad and realized that wolves stop dear from growing out of control and eating all the plants.

 This reminds me that everything is in perfect balance and killing off a predator will let the prey grow in number and require more food which can destabilize an ecosystem.

TED Talk

In the video the speaker Richard Preston talked about how giant redwoods contain vast ecosystems that are teeming with life.

 the redwoods are wider than a road and extremely tall some evin reach 240 feet or taller because of this the trees are moastly unexplored. The redwoods themselves are thousands of years old. the canopy's are there own ecosystem capable of soporting life some of that life is undescuverd.

 i think this is amassing that there is self contained ecosystems in the world pokits of life living on indefinitely without recorceses from out side sorces.