User talk:Chantel Saban/sandbox

Feedback for fire class
Fire history and fire ecology of the Fremont National Forest sounds great. I would provide a general overview of the whole national forest, rather than focus on a subsection. It will provide a greater variety of topics, and it would be also be much less biased and therefore helpful to Wikipedia readers. Answer.to.the.rock (talk) 17:29, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

long term environmental change class
I will be adding to the North American section of the Younger Dryas. I have already added some edits and citations to the main page. I intend to update the section of the page with cited evidence examples of varying degrees of YD impact on North America by breaking the subject down into regions. These regions will include:the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest North America. Special emphasis will be placed on areas such as the Great Basin. Citations will include but not be limited to...Paleo_Broad 01:38, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

comments
I like the edits you made so far to the Younger Dryas article. There are some syntheses of vegetation change (Bryan Shuman) and fire (Jenn Marlon) of the Younger Dryas in north america. Could even redraft a figure from one of those papers. Be sure to sign comments on talk pages using the four tilda characters. Your user name is showing up as Chantel Saban, not the name you give above. Answer.to.the.rock (talk) 15:03, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Peer review
This looks good! Lots of information without being overwhelming. One question: are you creating a new page or adding to the existing Younger Dryas article? If a new page, it may help to include at least a sentence of context regarding the Younger Dryas: ie, "The Younger Dryas, a period of abrupt climatic change, has particularly important impacts to the natural history of North America..." One other note: some of the language may be advanced for wikipedia: ie, "Although not as abrupt a delineation, the Midwest was subdivided by a cold gradient between the north and south" is confusing to me, even with a paleoclimatology background. Finally, the first sentence introduces the younger dryas as a period that's important for studying the biogeographical consequences, but the article itself only looks at the climate history of the various regions. There's a disconnect there, and I think it could be solved by either connecting the climate changes back to biogeography, or changing the first sentence and only focusing on climate history. - Kate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katherine hayes (talk • contribs) 15:51, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Peer review for Fire Ecology
Chantal, this is awesome! I think it is great that you are writing about the Fremont NF in more depth, as well as the fire information. There are some little typos in the last couple paragraphs, so just keep an eye out for those on the final edit. Perhaps on the section about European settlement where you talk about the damage from logging and grazing, you could talk about specifics of soil degradation, or maybe just be more specific when you say "too much damage." That is awesome that you have your own photo to show! Another thought is when you talk about the Klamath tribe, maybe you could mention at the end of that paragraph that the Fremont National Forest has a trust responsibilty to consult the Klamath tribe on land management decisions via a government to government relationship. I just did a quick google search and found this as a potential source. https://www.fs.fed.us/spf/tribalrelations/partnerships.shtml Overall, I'm blown away by all the work you've done! Nice job! LarixOccidentalis (talk) 06:32, 29 November 2017 (UTC)LarixOccidentalis