Erin King- topic of choice reflection

Growing up, our house had about an acre of woods behind it. I would spend my days playing in the creek and running around the trees, expending all of the energy I wish I had these days. I remember wanting to build a small club house for my neighbor and I to play in, using a large rock on a hill as a wall and cloth tied to sticks in the ground to make a little roof. I felt so at home in that little make shift house, and that connection with nature is still present in my life today. The woods were such a huge part of my childhood, and a place that still remains special to me today. However, as time goes on, the property behind our woods was bought by housing developers and turned into a neighborhood. Granite, there is still quite a bit of woods, but the wilderness that once seemed so grand is now neighbored by ten two storied houses. The amount of wilderness that has been consumed for human use has grown exponentially over the last hundred years. In my own life I have seen the places that were once open land developed into a new shopping plaza, and the homes of trees and animals destroyed. It seems that the only land in some areas that does not get developed is already protected by law. The importance of wilderness it too large to not acknowledge. That is why green movements and conservation efforts are so important. Its a terrible site to see natural habitat developed into a commercialized area, especially when considering all of the life that lives there.