...case “Tree Values” to find an optimal way for Mr. Smith to manage his forestland and harvest the crop trees. The fundamental idea in this report is based on the concept of present value. A number of options are analyzed and the one with highest present value of pay off is considered. Questions 9, 10, and 11 give Mr. Smith 3 options: * Option 1: Harvest all crop trees now and receive $8,160 * Option 2: Let the forest grow without thinning, then harvest all crop trees 60 years from now and receive $537,962.01 at harvesting, equivalent to $28,800.08 now * Option 3: Thin and manage the forest, then harvest all crop trees 50 years from now and receive $670,033.56 at harvesting, equivalent to $58,429.42 now Based on the present value of the money received at harvesting, it is highly recommended that Mr. Smith should choose option 3. Furthermore, provided Mr. Smith decides to thin and manage his forest, in case he needs money soon to use for other purposes, he can harvest all of his crop trees at the 40th year to receive $410,608.68 at harvesting, equivalent to $58,325.19 at present, instead of waiting for 10 more years. This is because the present value of money received at the 40th year is just a little ($104.23) less than that of money received at the 50th year. Section 2 – Analysis Question 1 In order to choose the best offer, the amount of payment in each offer is discounted to present at the discount rate of 10%. This is just a basic discounting problem, using the...
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...mining solutions, scalability and complete data mining. Most of the world's leading financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, high technology, and healthcare organizations use Angoss predictive analytics to increase revenue, increase sales productivity and improve marketing effectiveness, while also reducing risk and cost. 2. Discuss on data preparation features provided by the product. Known for its industry, Decision Tree patent and a graphical user interface wizard driven which, Knowledge STUDIO is a modeling and predictive analysis workbench for advanced high-performance business analysts and quantitative analysts who offer a robust set of capabilities for the development and utilization of the mining model data for a variety of applications and use cases. Advanced Predictive Modeling Knowledgestudio offers thorough, progressed information digging and gauge examination for all periods of advancement models and improvement arrangement. In a high accomplishing visual analyser that furnishes the information with complex expository solid settlement and scale, between the front driven wizards helps the client in all important model developer...
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...the pros and cons to actually find which has the most to gain and which has the most to lose. In this situation the stakeholders are the Kikuyu tribe, Colney and Pitts, International Center for Ethno Botanical Research and Eco Smile. All of these entities have a direct connection and impact on the other. Kikuyu Tribe The Kikuyu tribes are natives to the Aberdares mountain range. The impact of the development of this land will not only change their lives, but it will also alter their culture. As a people the Kikuyu tribe has lived on this land for centuries. Colney and Pitts have made some offers that give the tribe all options except for leaving things as they are. First of all the Kikuyu people have already discovered uses for the trees that the pharmaceutical company is wanting to make money from. These trees are being used for home building and medicine. The offer to train them and give them jobs could be beneficial. While this may be true, unless there is some change in African government the training and experience will not help them in the future. Then one must think of the animals that the Kikuyu tribe hunt for food, the change in the environment will run off all of the wild life all...
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...Abstract Normally found along coastal lines, estuaries offer a safe haven for water, air and land creatures alike. One flourishing estuary in particular is located in the Tampa area and is known as the Tampa Bay Estuary. The Nitrogen cycle is a cycle where nitrogen through decaying vegetation, excrement and carcasses materialize into the nitrogen we find in the soil. The Nitrogen cycle is almost identical to the Carbon cycle. Natural Disturbance are disturbances caused by Mother Nature. Anthropogenic caused disturbances are man’s way of harming the ecosystem. Nature has a way of recovering with and without help. Estuary Ecosystem The United States of American is a country that consists of many different ecosystems in a relatively small space. From the arid desert climate with scorching temperatures to mountainous areas that stay frozen year round, the United States has many different ecosystems to offer. One ecosystem in particular is the estuary system. Normally found along coastal lines, estuaries offer a safe haven for water, air and land creatures alike. It also offers a great area for many different types of vegetation to grow. One state with a plethora of estuaries is the state of Florida. Florida, having a relatively warm climate year round and having a coast line that almost surrounds the entire state, gives these ecosystems a great environment to flourish. One flourishing estuary in particular is located in the Tampa area and is known as the Tampa Bay Estuary. This...
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...Hannah Muller ENVR 102 Book Report For this book report, I read Teaching the Trees by Joan Maloof. Joan Maloof studied Plant Science at the University of Delaware, Environmental Science at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Ecology at the University of Maryland College Park. Maloof is a professor at Salisbury University who teaches biology and environmental studies at Salisbury University. Aside from being a professor, Maloof is a biologist. She was always very interested in forests so from very early on Maloof has been exploring forests all over the eastern United States. She puts a lot of focus on the intertwined connections between specific tree species and the specific animals and insects that need to tree to live and in turn the tree needs them as well. Maloof possesses great enthusiasm for the woods and everything that they contain and is working on developing networking old growth forests across the United States. Teaching the Trees starts out with Joan Maloof saying how we would lose the “Magical Web” of relationships between organisms and trees (Maloof xiii). She begins talking about the services that trees provide for us. She also talks about how the benefits of trees equal healthier air for us to breathe. Japanese researchers have even found that there are 120 chemical compounds in mountain forest air that are good for us (Maloof 3). Inhaling this air can even be cancer preventing. Perhaps by trying to save the forests we are actually trying to save...
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...of Massive Rainforest Deforestation Tropical rainforests are an invaluable resource to wildlife and humanity. The level of biodiversity is unlike anywhere else in the world. A plethora of unknown species of plants and animals thrive in tropical rainforests, and many of them may offer medicinal benefits to humans; however, with the rapid deforestation of these areas, the Earth is losing some of the most precious resources. Logging, agriculture, and cattle-ranching are the main forces that drive deforestation and heavily contribute to the resulting environmental issues. By developing sustainable methods of forest usage and eliminating excess deforestation efforts, the Earth’s tropical rainforests can continue to hold the treasures of wildlife. Forests make up thirty percent of the Earth’s land surface. Wildlife is abundant and plant life is so diverse that many species are still unknown. With forests areas the size of Panama being wiped away each year, in one hundred years the world’s rainforests could completely vanish (National Geographic). Countless trees are cut down every year by the logging industry, which supplies the world with paper and wood products. Its effects extend beyond the loss of trees. For example, several indigenous tribes of Papua, New Guinea have lost huge portions of their land to government-backed logging operations (Shearman, Phil, and Jane Bryan). For tribal peoples who subsist on the land, it is a major misfortune for them. Agriculture and cattle-ranching...
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...Question 1: Chapter 8, #1 (adapted) Are the following clauses grammatically positive or negative? Give evidence for your answers. i. I can do nothing to help you. Positive Negative Evidence: ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ii. We finished the job in no time. Positive Negative Evidence: ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ iii. You shouldn’t just not return his call. Positive Negative Evidence: ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Question 2: Chapter 11, #1 (adapted) Determine whether the following underlined finite subordinate clauses are (a) relative clauses, (b) declarative content clauses, or (c) ambiguous. Give evidence in support of your answers. i. She ridiculed the idea that he had proposed. Type : _______________________ Evidence: ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ii. They are saying things that cause her great distress. Type: _______________________ Evidence: ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ...
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...https://gyazo.com/ad25b5f908c4338b3346452cbc3de35b How to Choose a Provider for Gum Tree Removal If you ever need to get some trees removed from your yard, it is important that you will leave the task to the hands of the experts. You will find that a number of providers can be found around who would be able to get the trees removed from your yard for you. You just have to be sure that the Gum tree removal is done by the right people. Despite the number of choices that are present for you, not every single one of these firms is expected to assist you right. Start by getting to know the names of your choices. A number of firms can be found around, but you have to be very particular about who it is you will decide to get assistance from....
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...product. As part of the strategy we will be looking to market Christmas trees to Mexico. Most only think of Christmas trees as the cut tree you place in your house during the holiday season for roughly two weeks. There are other avenues of sales that Christmas trees farms don’t realize that has a huge potential of revenue production. Christmas trees can be dug out of the ground to have a root ball; this enables the tree to be replanted at a later time when the weather and conditions apply. There is another part of the business that I will attempt to market to Mexico and that is wreaths made of Christmas tree branches. These branches are usually left behind in the field to be mulched the next spring. Also there are trees that are unable to be cut to use as Christmas trees that would have to be destroyed and marked as a loss. In identifying if the Mexican market is a place that is in need of Christmas trees and wreaths, the company had to do a mailing survey to home owners and business owners. We also conducted phone calls to three of the larger suppliers in the Mexican market within the country. As a third view of looking at the demand we contacted the large box stores, Home Depot and Lowes to understand their supply and demand concerns. It was identified that all three methods of contact justified they need to enter into this market. All parties explained that there was a huge need for trees and wreaths. The biggest of those contacted were the box stores. They...
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...Travelsmart, Friends of Kings Park).” Introduction: Founded in 1992, Planet Ark has encouraged environment change and sustainability for over twenty years and is specially focused on the impact we have on our planet and the sustainable ways we can use to minimize this impact. Planet Ark aims to ‘protect and enhance the natural environment’ (Planet Ark, 2013) and get individuals and businesses involved together to protect the planet and work towards sustainability. Planet Ark undertakes a special annual activity, National Tree Day, planting tress to provide for a sustainable future, which begun in 1996 and continued each year with growing support. One of the main points of focus for National Tree Day is to educate on and plant native trees and plants, creating a sustainable future for the environment by supporting local bio-diversity, however the question remains is Planet Ark achieving this and National Tree Day actively educating and making for a sustainable future? Through the use of various articles, Planet Ark’s own findings and reports and other critical analysis’s we will explore and discover how effective the ideas and the method in which they are carried out truly are. Considering Planet Ark’s prominent status and their devoted attitude to helping the environment, they are the ideal example to focus on. Through critical analysis the question will be answered, is Planet Ark’s National Tree Day successful at creating a sustainable future? Literature Review As Mieszkowicz...
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...The Once-ler is a main character in The Lorax, written by the popular children's author Dr. Seuss. The story of The Lorax is very much relating to environmental changes and warns against the dangers of corporations which abuse characteristic assets to fulfill their own greed . In the story, the Once-ler comes to a bountiful healthy environment with abundant wildlife and the (fictional) Truffula Trees. He chops down the Truffula Trees and uses their colorful, fluffy tops to make the does-it-all item called a thneed. In the Beginning, the Once-ler is successful in offering his thneeds, however this prompts him chopping down the majority of the Truffula Trees, denying a significant number of animals of their nourishment and shelter. All of the...
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...growth rate is estimated be 0.8 percent (2014 EST). Maintaining sustainable management of the Amazon rainforest can be a difficult, but important task that shouldn't be overlooked. Brazil needs to take advantage of the resources that the forest has to offer in order to develop, so not taking advantage of the rainforest is not an option. Exploiting the forest can have some irreversible damage such as climate change, soil erosion, and flooding can all be effects of unchecked exploitation ("Sustainable Management of The Forest", N.D). Sustainable management will allow for Brazil to develop without compromising the integrity of the rainforest. According to ("Sustainable Management of The Forest", N.D) Possible strategies that may help conserve, or at least minimize the human footprint. “Agro-forestry - growing trees and crops at the same time. This lets farmers take advantage of the shelter of the canopy of trees. It prevents soil erosion and the crops benefit from the nutrients from the dead organic matter.” Because of the nutrients left behind from dead matter, farms have natural fertilizer for the crops they may choose to grow. Selective logging trees that are a pre-determined height, in order to avoid cutting down younger trees ("Sustainable Management of The Forest", N.D). Educating those involved in exploring and removing the resources in the damage, and the footprint it may leave behind. Proper logging by the country should be done. These logs will show what areas are being...
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...small, Munds Park Arizona is definitely a destination that would lead each visitor to an escape from reality. Tucked away in the thousands of acres of the Coconino National Forest, Munds Park Arizona flourishes with many residents and their families looking for a relaxing vacation. The location of the cabin is in an area in which cell service lacks, forcing family members to separate from the outside world and left just to focus on where they are now. This provides an individual with the opportunity for family and friends to get away from the summer heat and to appreciate the cooler weather that the destination has to offer. Munds Park is the most relaxing destination for vacation because of the pine trees of the Coconino National Forest, Odell Lake, and the presence of comforting family members throughout the experience. The elegant appearance of the pine trees surround and are within the small town of Munds Park. As one looks into the distance, they can see thousands of pines that never seem to end. All have a rough and sharp texture while their smell is energizing and delightful. With every...
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...the Rocky Mountain area. Wildlife, recreational forest users, timber industry and the nation’s water resources have all been affected by this infestation through the increased threat of wildfire, hazards trees at risk of falling and erosion. Land Management agencies have implemented actions to control this infestation by manipulating the physical makeup of forests which allow lower chances of pine beetle infestation. Spraying is also used as an insecticide to attack the infestation at the source. Ecological restoration of affected areas to allow forest environments to rejuvenate. The Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle has affected not only the Rocky Mountain area but also forests throughout the Western United States. The outbreaks of bark beetle has been an ongoing issue, the most recent and serious outbreaks have been taking place since the early 1990’s. Global warming, overcrowding of tree stands within forests of the Rocky Mountain area are the main causes of the explosive infestation. Mountain Pine beetle favor weekend trees because it allows for a more favorable environment to reproduce. The female beetle attacks the vulnerable tree and releases a pheromone which attracts mates. The responding male beetles also release a pheromone and the result is overwhelming for vulnerable trees. Land Management agencies have implemented mitigation efforts to decrease the amount of damage caused by the infestations. The application of spraying chemicals, thinning of tree stands, and hazard tree...
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...1. Executive Summary Ahorn is a maple syrup company that targets mainly middle and higher class customers around the Finger Lakes region in and New York City. Our company offers the best quality, pure, organic maple syrup that is made from Dutch trees, which are planted on our local farm in Elmira, NY. The maple syrup market is currently fluctuating due to the availability of other sweeteners and the sustainability of production along with the technological changes. However, with the different grades and quality of maple syrup the market has become very competitive. Ahorn, as an organic and the purest maple syrup, has a chance to succeed, especially when consumers tend to care about their health and the environment much more than they used to. This trend has created an industry, in which the demand for maple syrup is increasing but unfortunately the weather conditions and the long growth of maple trees go against the trend. Ahorn will therefore take an advantage of this large demand for maple syrup by positioning itself in the higher end of the market where many consumers look for healthy and environment friendly products. Ahorn Maple Syrup can be consumed by people of all ages because the majority of people enjoy having pancakes for breakfast with a great tasting maple syrup. Our product offers not only a great taste, but also great quality and is a 100% organic product. Our company’s largest competitions in the maple syrup market are Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth, Eggo and...
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