I’ve mentioned the ecosystem once or twice. Here is a page all about it. So you may know about a food chain or food web but that is only part of the big picture.

This is a food web. This shows how the plants and decomposers go to different animals and those animals loop around and around. That is why it is called a food web. Always remember this part. When any of the items die, either a scavenger eats it, or it decomposes into the ground and becomes nutrition for the plants and “The great circle of life is complete”.

Now, let’s pretend that someone killed most of the deer. Soon, the predators would kill all that’s left. Then they would wipe out their own main source of prey. And also, the vegetation would start slowly getting out of hand without deer to trim it down. The vegetation would take over everything and then the vegetation would have nowhere to grow. Then it would wipe itself out. After that, the other animals that were feasting start dying off from starvation. That wipes out the level of animals after that and soon, there is nothing left. All the vegetation left over makes one last splurge, and dies. NOTHING LEFT. So what; Nothing to do with us humans. WRONG! With no plants, there is nothing left to produce oxygen. Then we would suffocate from our own living. And don’t forget. Most of our food comes from the wild. Sure there are farmers markets, human grown poultry, meat, but let’s look at what we don’t have. Seafood, anything from plants besides tiny farmers markets that will NOT provide for the world. Positively negative death. because of some greedy hunters. Those ******** *******! (please excuse my language)

The ecosystem is what keeps everything balanced out. If you are a hunter, you are able to take one or two deer. If you are a fisherman, catch a moderate amount without over fishing. If you are a bystander, speak up. If you are a child, go spread the word. One more small study. What happens if you introduce an ash bore, to the United states? You probably heard the story of introducing the ash bore and entire forests of ash tree’s wiped out. If you look up, you can guess what happened next (if not, comment and we can chat). But today we all are STILL fighting the disease. Well, that was today’s lesson. So, go places, see things, and MAKE A DIFFERENCE!