North American Temperate Rainforest: Improving Human Impacts on the Temperate Rainforests

In order to improve human impact on the rainforests in Washington, individuals and surrounding communities must begin to support the overall well-being of the ecosystem. By educating people about the significance of the rainforest, the public will feel the need to protect the rainforest. Within the lands, visitors should be conscious of others’ behavior on rainforest. As encountering visitors throw trash behind or develop new hiking trails, we share responsibility to address these behaviors right away.

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Secondly, we should pay more attention on underlying threats of the rainforest outside the lands. For example, the federal government should increase the severity and number of regulations and sanctions on deforestation in hopes of weaken global warming’s affect on the rainforest and preventing automotive pollution from further contaminating the rainforest.

Thirdly, restricting the distance between visitors and animals within the lands is necessary. Since animals are an essential part of the rainforest, as visitors recklessly feeding the animals, this behavior itself not only threatens visitors’ safety, but also increases possibilities of introducing illness to animals, which might destroy the food chain in the ecosystem.

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Finally, Olympic National Park should dispatch scientific experts to supervise the rainforest regularly and, according to the scientific reports, establish adjustment programs to maintain or improve the ecological health.

Based on the suggestions above, the existing problems can be mitigated and the rainforest can be enjoyed by future generations for the near unlimited recreational access the national park offers.

（1）我认为除了政府的法律干涉外，雨林还需要得到个体及社区的支持和保护。应该对人们进行保护雨林的教育，使他们有一定的意识去自发保护雨林。在国家公园内，人们应该有意识地在观赏途中注意自己的行为，除了自己不丢垃圾外，还应该在看到他人丢得垃圾主动捡起，制止他人寻僻新道路的行为，应该切身处地地思考如何保护这样一片重要的自然瑰宝，而不应该只以游玩的心态去逛雨林。