Earth Corps Environmental Analysis

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On November 7th, I volunteered at the Earth Corps event held in the Woodland Park starting from 9am. The Earth Corps gathered volunteers in groups and led us to sections where we were going to work on replanting. My group was at the ‘head start’ where the Earth Corps fenced to avoid disturbance from dogs and people walking by trees starting to grow. Dasha, my group leader of the Earth Corps, told the volunteers to dig a hole making enough room for a plant’s root to grow straight and deep. She, then, instructed to untangle a shrub’s root to avoid its root keeping growing tangled instead of growing deep, commenting the organization has already marked where which plant be planted depending on its need. For example, Abies grandis, known as Grand fir, was placed under partial shade or where exposed to sunshine more as it grows faster and deeper under full sun.
I paired up with Sona Grigoryan who was also from ESRM 100 at the University of Washington to replant trees. I and Sona planted around 10 plants. After planting, we conducted ‘quality check’ if the soil around plant compressed enough to hold its root by slightly pulling each plant up. If the plant easily came apart, it
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The ecological importance of forests and forests fragments may address as its economic value to human society, timber business, and its contribution to hydrological cycle, controlling atmospheric moisture around forests. They are tightly related to animal and plant population because of their role of organisms’ habitat. Thus, forests loss and forest fragmentation, mainly caused by anthropogenic activities such as logging in Amazon, Brazil, endanger biodiversity and vitality of forests’ role to ecosystem and decrease the capacity of forest regeneration. Raf addressed that the decreased size of forests and its biodiversity may led to massive species extinction of organisms inhabiting forests, that follows by forest