Urban Sprawl and its affect on habitat and animals

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February 17 ,2009

Urban Sprawl and The Effects on Habitat and Animals

The extensive and ongoing human interference with nature has progressed in leaps and bounds across time , and the dwindling spaces allotted to wilderness that remain unspoiled , or in some cases at least still viable , are becoming fewer and farther between . The activities conducted by man have directly and negatively , impacted many species of wildlife and their habitats , in a variety of ways , sometimes irreversibly . We will review what some

these activities are , the resulting effects they have had on habitat , as well as animal life

I : The Evolution of Urban Sprawl

What is the modern definition of urban sprawl ? According to Authors Johnson and Klemens "Sprawl is a dispersed pattern of single use , low density land uses , most evident as developments of large lot , single family homes , office campuses , and strip malls (1 . When man first settled the colonies in North America , it was a settlement here , a town there , plenty of wilderness remained , vast and unexplored . Although some habitat was lost , and a variety of animals species were displaced relocated , or as in the case of the buffalo , almost eradicated by man 's activities , it was not the desperate situation we have seen develop in the twenty first century . It was the early beginnings of urban sprawl though , and as the quaint settlements became larger cities , and population grew , aided along by births , massive immigration , and the inventions of progressively...