hiking trip

I went hiking over spring break with my family in Roanoke and had a really great day. We hiked about 4 hours and the sites were beautiful until the end when we came to some overlooks and all you could see were mining spots. This brought to my mind the destructive nature of humans in their relationship with the environment. Early in the hike I saw a mink and a few deer and at the top I found an environment that those creatures could no longer live in. This made me think about discussions we have had about man moving into new environments and made me wonder if man would one day consume all land and completely ignore what all other creatures of the earth needed. I came to no conclusions though.