ARCHIVE - Visualizing Ecology - Week 4: Clements and Succession http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/taxonomy/term/14/0 en ARCHIVE - Aileen Milliman - Week 3 Clements http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/aileen-milliman-week-3-clements <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"> The Dust Bowl of the 1930&#39;s was the result of years of careless farming on the Great Plains. Farmers were more concerned with quick money from high wheat prices than environmental security in the future. The added pressure from WWI and the popularization of heavy tractors allowed farming on the Plains to skyrocket. Unfortunately, they did not realize the severity of their actions. When the Dust Bowl hit in the 30&#39;s, it was a wakeup call for the country that man does have a profound effect on nature.</font><br /> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="2" style="font-size: 11pt"> “It was man&#39;s destruction of the grassland that set the dirt free to blow. Through such ill-advised practices as plowing long straight furrows (often parallel to the wind), leaving large fields bare of all vegetation, replacing a more diverse plant life with a single cash crop, and —most importantly— destroying a native sod that was an indispensable buffer against wind and drought, the farmers themselves unwittingly brought about most of the poverty and discouragement they suffered.” (Worster 226)</font></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/aileen-milliman-week-3-clements">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/aileen-milliman-week-3-clements#comment Week 4: Clements and Succession Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:58:53 -0800 milail09 219 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Kruger david, steve's group http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/kruger-david-steves-group <p class="MsoNormal">David Kruger<span>   </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>Clements Climax theory is very utopian in its ideals. It suggests that the most stable equilibrium of plant formations arise in effect of certain geographical situations. His climax ideal is reached only when untouched by human hands. When man messes with nature the climax often disappears. </p> <p style="text-indent: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal">The stability granted by these climax states appears necessary when viewed in light of the dust bowl. When man brought first plough then tractor to the Midwest we drastically changed that natural form of climactic stability. “By 1925 it was clear, according to Vance Johnson, that ‘mass production had reached the plains” (pg 229). </p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/kruger-david-steves-group">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/kruger-david-steves-group#comment Week 4: Clements and Succession Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:55:21 -0800 krudav10 198 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Test AGAIN http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/test-again YEAHHHHHH! http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/test-again#comment Week 4: Clements and Succession Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:24:43 -0800 carkat07 31 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter