Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Invasive Milfoil in Maine.
Milfoil is taking over of lakes and killing our fish and plant life it was brought in by boat transportation. The problem with milfoil is it grows rapidly ANYWHERE and can grow 6-10 feet. The problem we have with Milfoil is it likes everything a plant shouldn't like warm water, strong currents, disturbed water and other pants so it can filter of of them. Milfoil has got to the point where it's so thick in so many places it is hard to drive your boat through water. Fish and other plants are dying because he species is killing there habitats. Ways of prevention are to always check your boat and make sure you are not dragging the weed around on your engines lower unit. Always wash your boat no matter how long your boat was in the lake. The last major concern is the boats trailer often over looked because it only in the water for 2-3 minutes but the weed can cling to the trailer and transport itself right into your next boating destination. There are people trying to stop the spread of
Milfoil but it is such a big problem that they can't do it all by themselves. It's up to us to protect our lakes and our state.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Even though this is a small scale experiment it still shows dangers in what potentially could happen to our earth. The candle represents and the sun and glass tube represents the earths atmosphere. Pretend there's a small ball in the middle of the glass tube, that's the earth. Can you see what could happen? Our earth could dissapear. We need to find ways to help our earth, not blow it.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A way to clean oil from water
This seems like a good idea seems so good why didn't we use it to its fullest? and what do we do if something like this happens again shouldnt we be ready?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Video blog follow up
These videos show the examples of what trawling the ocean floor and banks or shelves can do to fish species. Fishermen argue this to be okay! Is it? whats your opinion? Our ocean is huge but there are limited places to catch fish because every type of fish and climate is different. If we wipe out what we have what are we going to do and/or use for bait in the case of the herring. Trawlers drag their nets as much as 5 miles across the ocean floor at a time basically raking the ocean floor ripping coral and other living structure right to shreds. They catch lobster and many different types of fish everything that comes over the side of the boat dies. DMR makes laws on the amount of fish a trawler can keep and also sets time limits, to me this is absolutely wrong. they're causing a lot of loss to the fishing industry and a massive head ache for fishermen. whats your opinion on the matter do you agree?
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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