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Forest fires
Forest fires are fires that are caused by accident by nature or by humans.“ If it is too hot to touch then it’ s too hot to leave.”-Says Smokey the bear, the famous anti wild fire mascot.“ On average, more than 100,000 wildfires, also called wild land fires or forest fires, clear 4 million to 5 million acres( 1.6 million to 2 million
for farm land. Before Christopher Columbus in 1492, and colonized it as the new world, the whole continent was almost complete forest. Now only around half of that is forest today. WE can stop this by talking to local environmental groups and asking how you can help, and plant some trees around your community. hectares) of land in the U. S. every year.” Says National Geographic We can stop forest fires by putting out fires before we leave them unintended, call the fire department right away if you see a forest fire.
In conclusion, Deforestation is destroying our beautiful planet earth, and as it is, this is the only planet we have. Logging, forest fires, and human development seem huge and impossible to stop, but if we all work together and each do our part, we can stop deforestation. We can all make a
Human development
Human development is when we humans burn or cut down forest so we can use the land for our own use. We cut down forest for cities, golf courses, schools, and Neighborhoods. We mostly cut down forest change. We can all help to stop deforestation, one step at a time. My opinion on deforestation is that it effects our environment more than we know and more than we can imagine,
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