My site in Centennial Woods could have various different futures. The area seems to be degrading quickly in the past few months because of the rain and other weather is eroding the soil more rapidly than before, so it’s difficult to understand what changes may be done to ensure the area doesn’t degrade even more rapidly. Some factors to help change the way this area is becoming worse, would be to change the area in which the water from the university dining areas go to. Since I was there last when it was especially muddy and soil was eroding rapidly from severe rain fall, citizens taking care of Centennial Woods have put down more planks in the area for people to walk on, which shows how this area is not seen as an area that wild life coincides in but an area that is made for people to hike through. This area may as well become an area that would become a dormitory building as it has been planned in the past by the university. The most important way to ensure this will not happen and to stop the area from degrading more is to ensure that the visitors of the area are educated about not abusing the area. For example, within this area there are many fallen trees that birds live in and many fry live in the stream during the spring. It’s important that people are educated about this and remember this area is a habitat for many organisms.

The majority of the individuals dwelling in the area are birds, small fry, and surrounding trees. To ensure that they would be able to live in their habitat with minimal interaction with visitors who may degrade the habitat in a way that may hurt those living in the area. To ensure there would never be more degradation, individuals should never walk around the area however many people do enjoy walking through Centennial Woods. The majority of those who live around the area are nonhuman individuals so it’s harder to know what the future would hold as they may not know what they need in the future. Overall, attempting to se what type of compromise could be made between people enjoying walks through the area and organisms living within the area may be hard to agree to. As well as, the university possibly wanting to put an area for students to live in.

At this site, it’s seen people do not take care of it, and certain things such has cans and other trash is occasionally seen at the site. On the other hand, people who are working to take care of this area of Centennial Woods, put down wood planks in areas that may become very muddy in some areas but other areas are eroding because of the brook and haven’t been worked on and are becoming more and more eroded.

However, the area has been influenced through the brook and occasionally animals that may pass through, however not many live around this area except for some birds and fry. This area is fairly open and there are very few trees, and I think that within the future that there would be some fewer trees and that more of the soil around the brook will become eroded and the brook will become larger and larger as time goes on. In the future, the perspective of this area being close to campus but also being in the middle of the woods may cause the University to become interested in an idea to make a dorm building in the area as the school had this idea during the 1990’s.