Chapter 17 (Pacific Northwest)

Stanley Park in Vancouver

Stanley Park in Vancouver was the largest city park in Canada. Chapter 17 talks about this park and also has a section on The Spotted Owl. Since the 1960's, old growth forest have become a battleground. Its habitat was closed to logging, resulting in destroying the local logging industry. The owl population has decline about about one-half since 1990. Fires and the West Nile virus also played a part in changing the ecosystem. Saving the spotted owl is a larger issue than merely manipulating the habitat. There are always disasters happening to forest/parks and no one can stop it because its part of nature. The Stanley Park was closed for a year after a 2006 storm occurred. Even though it was closed no one for got about the park. Once it reopen people was going back as if it never closed. I connected this section of chapter 17 to Philadelphia because Philadelphia also has a park that is very famous. Fairmount Park in Philadelphia is the biggest park they have. If everyone looks at the photos above of Stanley Park and the photos below of Fairmount Park, you can see that it looks almost the same.

Fairmount Park Philadelphia, PA

Fairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of 63 parks, with 9,200 acres, all overseen by the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, successor to the Fairmount Park Commission in 2010. Today, the commission divides the original park into East and West Fairmount parks. This park is very big and beautiful and is considered to be Philadelphia's biggest parks. There are a lot of family activities that goes on at this park like cook outs, picnics etc.

Fairmount Park is even beautiful during winter season. The park is always full of snow and kids are always going to play. There is not a time where Fairmount Park is empty.

Source:

Mayda, Chris. A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward a Sustainable Future. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. Print.

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