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- - - - Air pollution from the explosion of removing the mountains
      - Debris does contaminate
      - habitat destruction
      - Lots of waster- where to pu
      - Coal fines (tiny particles) stored in ponds or can overflow or break the dam
      - erosion
    - - Safer than underground mining for humans
      - Cheap and efficient
      - Quick assess to desired minerals (coal)
- - - - cost-effective
      - Can capture most benthic and bottom feeding species on the bottom
      - Smaller organisms can pass through unharmed
    - - Kicks up sediment- reduces amount of light that reaches the bottom
      - High chances of over-fishing
      - Changes sea floor environment aka Coral
      - Reduces biodiversity
      - High amount of bycantch
    - - Ocean floor scraped by heavy nets that smash everything in their paths including seamounts
      - Attempts made to mitigate the the problem of by-catch
  - - - With more regulation it is possible
      - Certain types of fishing are
    - - We are over-fishing to the point where the population can't regrow
      - Extreme bycatch and destroyed ecosystems
      - We do not eat a wide variety of fish
      - Removing so many fish annually will result in a collapse of fisheries
- - - - Destruction of trees can lead to soil erosion
      - High intensity fires destroy top soil
      - damages the habitat
      - Building and houses near the fires are damaged or destroyed
      - Air pollution
      - Soil erosion caused by forest fires can lead to landslides
      - Destroys commercial logging
    - - clears plants on forest floor, making room for larger plants
        
        Therefore larger fires are "less damaging"
      - adds nutrients to the soil
      - Possibility of seed germination
      - Sunlight can reach to the forest floor
      - increases habitats for some animals
    - - Crown Fires
        
        Start on ground or canopies of forests that have not had fires recently
        
        Spread quickly and burn at high temp. because they consume material on the forest floor
        
        Threat to wildlife, humans and property
      - Ground fires
        
        Smoldering fires that take place in bogs or swaps that burn for days or weeks
        
        Originate from surface fires
        
        Are difficult to detect and extinguish
      - Surface Fires
        
        Burn the forest's underbrush and do little damage to trees
        
        Serve to protect the forest from harmful fires by removing the underbrush that would normally cause the large fires