Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper on natural resources and energy. Include the following:

• Choose a specific ecosystem, such as a forest, grassland, or a marine or freshwater aquatic ecosystem.

• Identify impacts associated with agriculture.

• Identify and discuss the effects that a growing human population may have on that ecosystem’s resources, including loss or harm to populations of wild species.

• Discuss one management practice for sustainability and conservation of natural resources in that ecosystem.

• Identify the risks and benefits of extracting or using one type of nonrenewable and one type of renewable energy resource from that ecosystem, or in areas near that ecosystem.

• Assess management practices for sustainability and conservation of natural resources and energy.

Include two outside references.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Forests conversion involves removing natural forests to meet other land needs, such as plantations, agriculture, pasture for cattle settlements, and mining. Unfortunately after the process of farming is complete the outcome is irreversible. The outcome is irreversible since deforesting land for farming; the soil is depleted of its nutrients.

As the population grows more and more lands are being stripped to provide wood and land use for agriculture.

One management practice is logging and which are located on steep slopes, the effects of these activities on watersheds will depend mainly on the layout of roads and skid trails and the quality of their maintenance. Other important factors are the felling and skidding techniques which are used in silvicultural treatments, protection against fire and pests, and other forestry activities.

Forests or trees might be considered a non-renewable resource if they are cut down faster than they grow back. Many people think that the best wood is called "heartwood." This is the kind of wood that grows deep down in the middle of very old trees. If trees are lot allowed to grow for many, many years before they are cut down, we cannot get heartwood from them. If we cut them down too quickly, we'll end up with grasslands instead of forests, and there will be no trees left at all.

The way to preserve forests as a renewable resource is to cut fewer trees down. For that to work, people would need to find other materials that could be used in place of new wood (like bamboo, fiberboard made from wood chips, or recycled lumber), or we would need to devote more land to growing trees.

Sustainability is a complex idea involving economic, environmental, and social factors. The terms forest sustainability, sustainable forestry, and sustainable forest management are often used interchangeably and are closely linked to definitions of sustainable development. Commonly cited definitions for all these terms generally include or imply the following elements: the continued existence and use of forests to meet human physical, economic, and social needs; the desire to preserve the health of forest ecosystems in perpetuity; and the ethical choice of preserving options for future generations while meeting the needs of the present. Sustainability concerns the interactions between humans and forests in wildland, rural, urban, and suburban settings, and the effects of this interaction at local, landscape, regional, national, and global scales. In discussions of sustainability, forests are defined as ecosystems dominated by trees but with other components of nature, such as shrubs, herbs, mammals, birds, insects, microorganisms, soil, air, and water, and the interactive processes that bind them together. The concept of sustainability incorporates the knowledge that forests play a major role in sustaining human health and welfare. They contribute to the long-term viability of watersheds, communities, and economies.