What Happens When We Remove A Keystone Species? (video link)

Click this link https://exchange.iseesystems.com/public/isee/wolves-and-trees/index.html#page1 and summarize the following questions.

A keystone species is a species within an ecosystem that influences most all other species in that system. If a keystone species is removed from the system, the system will either collapse or the removal will cause a dramatic change in the species composition of the system. Use the link above to access the ISEE Exchange website to explore a systems model related to the removal of the wolves, a keystone species in Yellowstone National Park.

Click on the paw to open the model and read the background of the story. Next, explore the box-and-arrow type model of the effect of wolves on vegetation in Yellowstone National Park.

Summarize the cause-and-effect model in words, including the effect on other animals and ‘ecosystem’ or ‘land health’.
– What would happen to a system if wolves are removed from it?
Next, explore the box-and-arrow model.
– What is the connection/relationship between wolves and moose & elk?
– How did the removal of wolves from Yellowstone change the behavior of the elk and moose?
– What is the indirect effect of wolves on the beaver population?
– Why does this happen?
– How are birds in the system affected?
– How does the decline of beavers lead to a decline in aquatic insect populations?
– What did the extermination of wolves affect the ‘health’ of rivers?
– How did the presence of wolf kills (carrion) affect other animals?
– How did the reintroduction of wolves change the bison and elk behavior?
– How did this affect the vegetation along rivers?
– How did this affect the beaver population?
– Why do you think we refer to wolves as ‘keystone species’ to Yellowstone?
– What is a ‘keystone species’?

What issues, events, people, or problems would you discuss with them?

You have tBhe chance to meet and converse with one of the following prominent political economy thinkers. What questions, critiques, advice, and compliments do you have for them?
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
John Maynard Keynes
Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink

Here are some questions to help you develop your essay:

What comes to your mind once you meet them?
What would you tell them about our contemporary world?
What might their reaction be?
What issues, events, people, or problems would you discuss with them?
What recent example (event, case, etc.) would you present to them that shows the application (or lack thereof) of their theory? What strength or weakness of their idea(s) would you discusSection C:

Does this understanding apply to how we sort out an understanding of calling and vocation even today?

Using An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility (Luther), describe how Luther subverts the medieval understanding that a religious vocation was limited to priests and to those who embraced the monastic life. How is Luther’s argument supported by the Scriptures? Does this understanding apply to how we sort out an understanding of calling and vocation even today?

What do they tell you about the conditions of miners in America following the Great War?

Read the articles linked in this folder, and then write a brief, one-page paper summariznig what the West Virginia Mine Wars were. What do they tell you about the conditions of miners in America following the Great War? What addiitional insight does this incident give you about the discontent among workers at the tail-end of the Progressive Era and as America entered the “Roaring Twenties”? What was the ultimate fate(s) of the miners, and how does that reflect the changing beliefs around organization of laborers at this time?

Discuss how well prepared are you to communicate orally and in writing with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities and colleagues involved in your work.

ABSOLUTELY NO REFERENCES!!!!!!!!!

In the final module paper, the format is a little different. As a way of summarizing your experiences, please address the following questions. In your discussion, rather than simply stating that you are well prepared (or not), justify the position you take in your responses…..explain your responses or give examples.
The paper should be the usual minimum of two pages in length.

1. Discuss how well prepared you are to use professional ethics in your reasoning to arrive at principled decisions in your work with clients.

2. Discuss how well prepared are you to communicate orally and in writing with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities and colleagues involved in your work.

3. Discuss how well prepared you are to recognize the extent to which culture and cultural values may oppress, marginalize or alienate the at-risk populations you may work with.

4. Discuss how well prepared you are to use the concepts you have learned in this program to guide you in doing assessments, providing interventions and evaluating your own work (or your agency’s) in social work practice.