My sight is an almost fully natural area that has been saved from the total limitation that human interaction cause on natural sights, however, since the institution of UVM has spared centennial woods from this fate I was lucky enough to spend some time in my phenology blog space. Since centennial woods is a protected natural area that means that most of the space is protected from most human development and influences. However, there are things can be done to increase the security of the sight for natural beings. What can be done is research. A better understanding of a forests, out trees and the animals that live there is the only key to unlocking their potential for the human race and for themselves. Our natural world is currently on the decline. Biodiversity is decreasing constantly; we are losing our trees to infection and to pests. What best we can do for our natural world is to understand everything in it as best as we can before it all disappears. That’s why it is important to maintain areas like centennial woods as best as we can, so that hey can be utilized as the research meccas they were intended to be. Our political economy has allowed us to elect the right people and hear the right voices so that we have been able to hold natural areas like these away from the jaws of destruction that is American capitalism. American capitalism is a asocial construction (or has caused one, I’m not sure if the chicken or the egg came first) that has trained us to think about the natural world in its resources before its inherent value and beauty. The capitalist system has caused greed to cloud our judgment as a people and given us the inhuman power to destroy much of the world from which our life has sprung. Many of my classmates in the forestry program share these ideas. The only thing that it seems that we can do besides changing our system of government and our belief system in the modern world and beyond picking up litter every Sunday seems to be research. If I am successful enough as an academic to get into graduate school and receive a research grant, then me and my class mates as well I trust will go into the field and begin to research ways to save our natural world from destruction by men and the alteration we have made to nature like foreign invasive species so that we as a human race may benefit from the natural a world and so that the place from which our life has sprung, life will spring eternal.