The Silveria Story
Hello, my name is James Silveria and I am a first-year DLab student at One Stone. I have been spending the last two years “Exploring the mystery of my future” and this has led me to have some awesome experiences. To do good means to do anything that makes someone or everyone around you feel better, inspired, or hopeful. Even if it is just one single person you are doing something amazing. The single experience that stands out most to me is the cycles of life immersion and the research I did to look into the construction happening on Highway 55. I chose this artifact because it was inspiring to me, it made me start to think about something that would normally be overlooked by most people. I did this project to learn more about this construction and how it will affect the amazing wildlife and beautiful view that I get to see almost every weekend while going to tamarack. I truly don't want to see this area destroyed just so we can have faster speed limits. It truly saddened me to see that because they were so far away from a major city or town that many tests and regulations such as noise and air quality testing were overlooked because it wouldn't immediately be affecting humans. I wanted to raise awareness and let people know that constructions such as these may be amazing for our vacation drives but maybe not as great for the wildlife that makes these drives so beautiful. I hope others reading this see the impact that construction has on our world, and while things like this can and will not stop because the treasure valley is growing so quickly I do hope everyone realizes and appreciates what happens. I also think that all construction should have to go through all of the testing and that it could lead to new tactics for getting the same hard jobs done in a cleaner and more efficient way.
