Spirit of the Great Northern Forest
#1 - Web of Life - II
Complex relationships among bears, wolves, trees and salmon contribute to the intricate working of this wild ecosystem. Bears usually eat the bulk of the salmon's body leaving the head behind. Wolves often eat only the head, while coyotes and birds eat most of the rest. All this activity spreads the salmons' nitrogen rich nutrients. Then the insects, fungi, and microbes decompose what remains, providing fertilizer for the soil. Thus, the trees, grasses, bushes and sedges grow, keeping the soil intact, providing shade for the streams to maintain life-friendly temperatures, regulating their flow so the salmon can spawn and keep the life-cycles of everything going.
Nothing is out of place, nothing unnecessary,
except me.
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