Human activity is impacting my plot in many ways, both good and bad. One of the bad ways that human activity is impacting my plot is the obvious-litter. Seeing as my plot is a nature preserve at a school, lots of kids get the chance to visit it every week, but this also means a lot of trash. Another bad way human activity is impacting my plot is that since we made a trail through the middle of it, not all of the nature can grow to its full extent. Not a whole lot of animals can live there without being disrupted, although you do see the occasional dear. This also means that woodchips were brought in and so the nature preserve is not fully nature. A final way that human activity is impacting my plot negatively is that since my plot is near a church, a lot of teenagers go skating carelessly right near it. They actually go skating carelessly through it, tearing up the ground and killing lots of innocent plants.
There are just as many good ways human activity impacts my plot as there are bad ways. One good way human activity impacts my plot is that humans are there to take care of it. Humans are there to pick up the dead animals and the fallen trees. Humans are there to leave birdseed out for the birds and to make sure that the caterpillars have plenty of milk-weed. Another way human activity positively impacts my plot is that my plot is noticed and enjoyed. It is such a beautiful piece of nature, that if it wasn’t a nature preserve I feel it would be ignored, or considered a nuisance. But humans are able to understand the beauty and see God everywhere in it. This doesn’t just positively impact my plot, this also impacts us as humans. A third and final way human activity can be good for my plot is that we can protect the plot from the careless teenagers I talked about earlier, and people like them. With signs and warnings, we can easily scare them away from our plot.
There are many practical ways that I can easily protect my plot from the negative human impact. Like I said earlier, posting signs and warnings against those careless people scares them off. Also, posting signs about not littering, or maybe making a no-food rule on my plot. If we put a trashcan near my plot , then the people can just throw their garbage in the right place instead of in the woods. I can help protect my plot by visiting it and picking up the trash and cigarettes people have left behind. I can also get my friends to do this with me, and make it a fun activity for us to do. But I feel that the biggest thing I can do to protect my plot is to understand how important nature is, and to try to get that understanding across to others. If we realize how wonderful nature is, and how rare it is to come across pure nature, then we will feel guilty about ruining it, trashing it, or forgetting about it. For forgetting about it would be the worst way to negatively impact my plot.
