Environmental Change

I have noticed a lot that animals don't have homes because humans have taken over their environments. We need to save the animals. We need to save the ocean, the forests, we are messing up the food chain. These are some ways to try to save animals. 

1. Do not pollute the ocean, recycle your plastic and don't throw away plastic bags. Bring your own cloth bag with you to the store. Plastic bags look like food to predators so if a turtle says, um I'd like to have a snack there is a jelly fish the turtle might choke if that jelly fish is actually a plastic bag.

Sea bird with plastic in its belly
photo by Chris Jordan

2. Clean up garbage, there is so much garbage everywhere now. Its just gross, you see it at the street in the park, even on trails in the woods. Garbage can choke animals and hurt their habitats. So please  don't litter.

3. Stop using pesticide, it hurts honey bees. I know you might think, I hate bees. But they are very good insects, bees pollinate flowers without bees they wouldn't bloom. The flowers would droop shrivel up and die without bees.

4. Stay out of bat caves because white nose bat syndrome started with a person walking into a bat cave with gross fungus on their shoes. The disease has killed thousands of bats in America.

White nose bat syndrome

5. Don't chop down trees. You are ruining animals habitats when you are doing this. You are also hurting humans habitat because trees create oxygen which we need to breathe. 

In conclusion, I'd like to say that I hope you will act upon these things. Especially this last one."A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide at a rate of 48 lbs./year and release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings." - McAliney, Mike

The author Elise Mc Millen

Bullys and Babys

My cousin and her mom

Katherine is my new cousin she is four months old. She has really tiny eyes and feet. She is the cutest little thing on earth. She got baptized yesterday. I figured out how to make her scream and coo and laugh. I think she gets most of the attention but that is what its like to have a younger cousin. Its fun playing around with her, she will smile and it makes me feel better. Wouldn't it make somebody feel worse if they were to bully a baby or anyone else really? So why do they bully, it doesn't make them feel better it makes them feel worse. Do they do it because they think it makes them feel better? That is just wrong. Being around a baby makes me think about bullying because when you make a baby smile it makes you feel better and when you make them cry it makes you feel worse. It is almost like everyone has very sensetive spots in their hearts and a bully just goes there and picks on it and picks on it and picks on it. Like once at school I had a bullying problem this girl and I had a staring contest and I did somethings that were pretty silly. She kind of punched me playfully. Then she said if you do that again the punch will hurt more. Of course that was only once and other people have bigger problems that was just a little one. 

The Author Elise Mc Millen