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This photo was taken on April 22nd at the Hidden Lakes Forest Preserve located in Bolingbrook, IL. As you can see from the photo, there are many trees that are knocked down and this is a result of logging. Logging is the result of people cutting down trees either due to deforestation, for an aesthetic look, or to use the wood elsewhere. Removing trees from the woods have made it easier for people to walk inside the woods and may have been cut due to aesthetic reasons. The trees that have been brought down still lye on the ground and have not been picked up. In this ecosystem, they are bringing down diversity of the animals that lived in those trees prior and other animals are now using the newly cut down trees instead. Animals can now find cover behind and under the tree logs that have been knocked down, but the same species that used those trees before may need to find a new place to relocate to. These animals would include birds that have made their homes in those trees and now have lost their home. The new species using this area could be rabbits and snakes that may take shelter under the tree or within the tree. I would not have park officials remove the trees because that would alter the habitat of new species that now use these trees. Instead, I would recommend that deforestation should be stopped in this area as a solution.