Andy Zepp came to talk about natural land in the Finger Lakes. One aspect of his lecture that made me think about something I hadn’t before was how something as seemingly benign as a hiking trail can actually be fairly intrusive to an ecosystem. One might expect an environmentalist to support more hiking trails, so that people can enjoy the beautiful world around them, but little would they know that these trails and people stomping on the ground, making noise, displace wildlife and affect their habitats. While gross acts of ecological negligence, such as one he showed where the top of a beautiful, arborous, mountain was decimated to make way for fracking frackers, are the usual targets for people who like to live on Earth, less obviously detrimental acts can still have significant impacts on our world.