North American Human Impacts

The North American nature had been influenced by human activities since long time ago. Agriculture is a major feature of human impacts. It is a part of the essential ministry also key development in the North American's society. The North American landscape had been cultivated in the early sixteenth century, which surrounded villages and houses. People were seeking ancient fields that they could cultivate artificial fields to feed plants and livestock. They burned forests to clean and open ancient fields. However, it caused change a natural ecosystem and damaging impacts on landscapes. Example of negative human impacts are growing populations, developing agriculture, and other effects. Populations grew up, hence many slaves and servants came to North America. As a result of this, people needed more food production. The Native American landscape had

Shifting cultivation was a common way of agriculture. Settlers burned forests to grow plants and food in this area. They would move another area when soil didn't have nutrition. As a result of this, erosion caused everywhere and made empty fields. Also, wild animals lost their habitat because forests were disappearing and people created earthworks. These human impacts are related to each other. Settlers and native people were looking only one causation, and therefore ecosystem would not be able to recover. We need to see problems from different perspectives and understand contexts. Some fields occurred environmental recovery. However, it took over a hundred years to recover from open fields even if colonies population declined. In addition, new human impacts came such as a war. People didn't expect to appear human impacts on the natural environment more a hundred later. On the other hand, the natural environment accumulated human impacts long term. Native people should consider about how they should protect or maintain the natural