Callan Thompson's Blog

    A few weeks ago, I  went home to Connecticut for a few days and was able to spend some time outside in nature. My friend and I went for a walk down to the Connecticut River on a rare warm day. We went there because it was a place us and our other friends would go when we were in high school. To get to the side of the river there is about a 5–10-minute walk through the woods. On this walk i noticed a turkey out there and I'm not sure why. I have taken this walk probably a hundred times in my life before and have never seen a turkey. Mostly we would just see the usual, squirrels, birds, etc. But for some reason there was a turkey there that day. I was also surprised to see that not all the trees and bushes and leaves had started to change colors yet. Most of them already had changed to the orange and brown colors of fall, but there were a few small areas that were still mostly green. I was curious to see how the water looked during the fall since I would ...

    Section 1:    Richard Nixon (1913-1994) was the 37th President of The United States of America. He served for more than five and a half years as president before resigning due to the Watergate Scandal. Although he is remembered strict conservative of the Republican party, Nixon surprisingly made many environmental impacts for our country. The Nixon administration was the first to bring up the environment as a real issue. In his State of the Union address in 1970, Nixon says "It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future." - Richard Nixon.  (quotefancy.com)  President Nixon then drew up a 37-point message on the American environment that included goals ranging from monitoring motor vehicle emissions standards, to halting all dumping in the Great Lakes. Also in 1970, N...