Loggerhead Island Project

This project was a fun one in my opinion. I thought at times that it was a bit challenging at times but it was cool to see how it was to make our own island. We had to protect the wild life that lived on the island while trying to build; a restaurant, golf course, club house, boat dock, research center, police/ fire department, 100 villas, 30 residential homes and more.

1. What special considerations did you have to make for the nesting sea turtle sites located on the barrier island? We knew that the sea turtles needed to be protected from any structures and buildings that were being built near it.

2. What special considerations had to be made when determining a good site for the proposed fishing pier? We knew that we couldn't put the pier near any of the the habitats because we didnt want to kill any of it.

3. What could be some of the potential problems that might arise from the proposed golf course? Propose some of the ways in which the impacts can be reduced. We made our golf course a little too big, it took over some of the land that was suppose to be for the turtles and the mangroves.

4. What are the economic benefits to the community of Loggerhead County if the development was done with the least amount of environmental impact? The economic benefits if the development was done with least amount of environmental impacts was that we would have more of an ecosystem and it would be a better place to live.

5. Describe three ways in which humans negatively impact coastal ecosystems such as the one you are working on with Loggerhead Barrier Island.Humans are building on wildlife all the time. We take out the nature to put in buildings and housing when it is not even needed. We are killing animals and taking their homes from them.

6. How can maintaining natural vegetation help us to reduce the damage caused by oceanic events such as hurricanes, tsunami and continued beach erosion? Natural vegetation helps to reduce the damage because it is all natural things. Our natural resources are the best things that we can live with and use.

7. After listening to the other groups make their presentations, were there any ideas they had you would have used if you had though about it before-hand? You should list at least three different ideas and indicate why their idea is actually better for the environment than yours. I think that some of the other groups had alot of good ideas. I think from listening to other groups we learned that we should have made our blue print alot more smaller than it was. We also could have protected our habitats more.