Thinking about my phenology spot as a social ecological system is an interesting and ultimately useful exercise. It is interesting to think of it a social-ecological system because that exactly what its. It is an ecological system that was created and is now influenced and protected by society. It is a useful exercise because it helps me to consider the way society as a whole, and not just individuals, can influence an environment. Society does things like graze heard animals methodically for a long time and let a forest grow over it later cause it feels bad. Society builds trails that have no meaning because they are in search of nothing but beauty. Society leaves garbage and decrepit structures in the middle of pristine environments. But it doesn’t matter because if left alone Mother Nature will regenerate into the natural order of things. But it is also extremely important to consider that society is able to grow preserve, live in and even, as I have learned, improve Mother Nature. We can better forest, make them more plentiful. Native Americans would produce gardens and forest alike that could support life efficiently comfortably. I feel like this is the true destiny for us as a people, help mother nature do her job in return for giving all she has to us.