Temperate Forest: The Intimate Wild
Q: "Ernest had grown up hunting in the Ozark National Forest."
Q: Isn't it illegal to hunt in a national forrest?
C: I had always thought that you weren't allowed to hunt in a national forrest, let alone take something out of it.
Grassland: Grassland Kingdom
Q: "...1,800 Asiatic wild buffalo, the largest remaining population anywhere..."
Q: Is this in the whole world, or just one specific area?
C: I just wanted to know if it means this species was endangered or almost extinct.
Freshwater: Reuniting a River
Q: "...But when the weather turned sunny and hot, the fish, wearied by the false start and weakened by infections, didn't get far: At least 30,000 chinook salmon died in the lower 40 miles."
Q: What kinds of infections did fish get, and how did they develop?
C: I wondered if it was from pesticides that farmers used, or some outside source.
Extra:
Desert:
- Q: "Even worse, this place where rain falls sparingly at the best of times was now in the grip of a bad drought,and the half-mummified carcasses of camels and goats lay strewn across the sands."
- Q: If the Afar people were traveling and a goat they had with them or a camel dies, do they just leave it? Wouldn't it be more efficient to use what they had?
- C: The imagery in this quote is good. I wondered why they would just leave it, instead of using it for food or other things.
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