The Essay At Risk By Jourdan Imani Keith

In the essay "At Risk" by Jourdan Imani Keith, I can see many things in it. It is really interesting when you can see about “At Risk” in her essay. It appears in every part of the essay. In a first paragraph, the writer wrote about a really dangerous time “the heaviest storms”, we still have some people are working like in the essay. “For seventeen days, the teenagers I recruited to build trails for the North Cascades National Parkare camping during one of the heaviest storms in a hundred years.” (Keith, 1) This time is really hard when people are in an at risk situation because, like the main character said, she will need a seven-hour journey to pick up the teenagers, not three-and-a-half-hour like in the normal day. That means in the place

I can see it through the thing that the main character who can be an environmental protection or a biologist said about the Endangered Species Act also the place where she is working. They are trying to protect the salmon and it is the right thing to do with the endangered species. “Protecting an endangered species means changing the practices in an entire ecosystem to safeguard their survival. It means managing the loss of their habitat, the turbidity of their waters, the surface water runoff from the streets that threatens them, and the effluents from the wastewater that disrupt their endocrine systems and, if unchecked, will cause their extinction.” (Keith, 1) When you change any ecosystem of any species will be at high risk when that species do not adapt to the new environment, but with the management and gradual change, we really can save the species is nearing extinction. It’s also a good thing to make the environment become better. To always follow the progress, in every year, the main character comes to the place where salmon spawn and doing research with her team to protect salmon species before more hazardous to their lives and help this species escape the