Ecosystems: A Hitchhiker’s Story

Adventure Brings Learning

Published in The EarthSphere Blog

The Game Board of Life (by WM House; Illustration from the Book ‘Beer for Breakfast’; ArcheanArt)

I grew up on the Mid Atlantic Coast of the US, where pine forests dominated the flat tidewater region near the ocean, and temperate hardwood forest covered the mountains to the west. We had a variety of ecosystems, but still, there were no deserts, no wet coastal rain forests, no high plains, and no true…