Forest City, Iowa

has a reaction. In the world in today, mankind has made various actions against mother nature, which has supplied and provided for man for millenniums on end. One of these actions is deforestation. Deforestation is the process in which trees in forests are cut down and cleared land for industrial and urbanization purposes. This process comes at a pricey cost in which it creates more harm than good. The United States of America should enforce a stricter law that restricts deforestation…

New England’s land was covered with thick forests. While this made it difficult to farm, it provided the colonists with timber for building houses, ships, and tools. The natives taught the colonists how to hunt and trap the forest animals. The New England colonies suffered from a harsh climate. Colonists endured cold winters and mild summers. In addition to the thick forest, land became hilly and mountainous farther inland. The soil in New England was thin and rocky. Colonists used the rocks…

The Amazon is the largest tropical forest in the world. It is 2.124 million sq miles. The Amazon basin covers eight countries and cattle ranching is ruining the forest. Find out how cattle ranchers are ruining the forest and how it can be changed, read this article and be blown away! The majority of deforestation is in the amazon basin. Most of the deforestation is caused by cattle ranchers cutting and burning down trees and nature for pasture. 65-70% of deforested areas in Brazil are now…

Destiny White We all use paper in our everyday lives but do we ever realize what people do so that we have it. Paper companies all around the world cut down many trees that we use to survive. In the text, “The Sumatran Rainforest Will Mostly Disappear Within 20 Years”, John Vidal informs readers about all of the risks that the Rainforest is taking in order to have create paper and other products for the world. Taking away the trees in the Sumatran Rainforest harms animals. Also, cutting down the…

use cars, bikes, and buses for transportation. Too ship and trade foods and goods the people in Jamaica use ships, trucks, and plane. Jamaica is a hot and tropical climate and Jamaica is like a big rain forest. Jamaica’s languages are English and African. Jamaica has some if the biggest rain forest for and island. Jamaica is a big tropical island.it…

(UNESCO) has proclaimed it a world heritage area. Unfortunately, there are several threats that are posed to this irreplaceable rainforest. Climate change is a huge threat to the Daintree Rainforest. A temperate change as small as one degree in the forests average…

performed on an industrial scale. This technique degrades soil quality and destroys trees. The second largest cause for rainforest deforestation is logging. Timber companies use a technique called clear felling in which they destroy huge areas of forest all at once causing huge dead spots in the landscape. After clearing the land, timber companies ship large trees to countries for furniture and small trees for charcoal production. Although these processes create goods for people all across the…

everything from timber to clearing the forest to dig mines. The biggest threat to the tropical rainforest is no other than man itself. Humans have the biggest impact on not only the rainforest, but the environment. (Threats to the Rainforests) The Tropical Rainforest…

of Natural Forest Fires to Forest Ecology Introduction Since its discovery, fire has fascinated man with its potential. Fire provides light and heat and while it destroys some things that come in contact with it, it is also capable of metamorphosing other things for the overall benefit of life. Natural fires are a routine occurrence in forested areas, especially during hot and dry weather conditions or due to lightning strikes. In the summer of 1988, for example, 42 instances of forest fires…

than the wetland and will be more active during the morning. Question Where are birds going to be most commonly spotted at walking distance from Westfield State University, the wetland or the westfield river floodplain forest? Background:…