In chapter 9, Belton reflects upon how as a child trees were looked at as something that was not appreciated or seen as a real living plant in Jersey City. He discusses a trip he took to Palisades Interstate park and learned about the life of the trees and the history that is found in the forest. This story made me think about the fact that children who live in large cities in and around New Jersey may not see the amount of open forests and trees there really are in New Jersey. This made me think about my own life, and growing up in south Jersey we have a lot of forests everywhere, and I remember in high school we had a project where we had to collect leaves from about 30 different trees that were found in new jersey and identify them all. So we had to wander around forests and other areas looking at all the diversity in trees New Jersey has to offer. Some of the facts Belton shared were surprising to me as well. The fact that New Jersey is so populated, yet we still have such preserved forest areas. A lot of the reason is that New Jersey tends to be super populated around New York City and Philadelphia and in between tends to be forest. It is sad to think that pollution is effecting our forests and put us at risk for losing all this beautiful diversity.
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