Forest City, Iowa

Picture this, The Amazon Rainforest. Bright green leaves from trees, animal moving all around, and beautiful trees, flowers and plant. Amazing, right? Well now imagine all of that being cut down, even destroyed. Many companies are cutting down trees in the Amazon to make factories, roads, farms, and to plant trees. By doing this, plants and animals are getting killed, which is causing a chain reaction. The animal and plant population goes down, then there is less food to hunt, then people are…

mature adults. What are the numbers dropping so drastically? There are many contributing factors. One major component is the diminishing habitat and forest fragmentation (dividing the forest into smaller pieces, by roads and human construction). The loss of habitat prevents family growth and increases inbreeding and slowing reproduction. These same forest fragmentations…

Hyacinth Macaws are especially important in seed dispersal. It is a messy eater, so as it eats the seeds the hyacinth macaw may drop some onto the forest floor. (Kassnoff) This shows how important they are to their environment. Hyacinth macaws are amazing creatures, but they may need our help to protect their habitat in the rain forest. Evidence proposes that around 10,000 hyacinth macaws were taken from their wild habitat during the 1980s. (Blue Hyacinth Macaw) There are many factors…

One major public policy in this case is the deforestation of forest lands that are the home to endangered species like the red-cockaded woodpecker. On one side of the argument is the logging industry that makes a living off taking from the land. As a society we need an infinite stream of lumber. This also brings about two major issues on the side against logging. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 has given the government "...the power to protect U.S. species from extinction" (Metrick & Weitzman…

Cloud forests, distributed throughout mountainous regions of Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, are complex ecosystems characterized by low fog cover at the canopy level, which enhances moisture levels, and cooler temperatures than lowland tropical rainforests (Doumenge, 1995). These tropical montane forests are host to an incredible number of species, many of which are endemic to their area (Doumenge, 1995). Epiphytes, plants that root in other plants for structural support…

thousand years of use, wood supplies have been slowly withering to what they are today. It has been difficult to accurately project just how much damage we have done to the world’s forests, but it is roughly estimated that humans have cut, cleared, and burned 46% of the approximate 15 billion acres of original forest cover (Bryant 13); at this rate, considering the rise of computer integrated machinery and our recent boom in population, we will be at half the total amount of trees recommended by…

Forest provides most of the resources including woods or trees that can turn into paper. One of the leading causes of rainforest destruction is logging. Paper manufacturing companies that using wood to create furniture and other wood materials are causing a lot of problems to the nature, Also forest provides habitat for some animals. Research has found that the number of species found in logged rainforest is much lower than the number found in untouched or “primary” rainforest animals that…

Reflection - 1 The image is a photo of a forest that has been clearly cut down. Earlier, the land was captured by greenery. The remaining parts of the logs clearly suggest that. But now the land is barren and left to its misery. The point at the issue is that deforestation is the biggest threat to the survival of human beings. Mary, Philip, and Sameer are three participants who are basically from New Zealand, Ireland, and India. The first question investigates what does deforestation really…

subjects, such as deforestation. The image consists primarily of a forest shaped like a pair of lungs, with part of the forest/lung gone. The color scheme has been changed in the area where the forest has been cut down. The colors shift from a deep green to a dark brown. In the case of the forest, this shift symbolizes death, provoking an incredibly emotional response from the viewer. This response is most effective because the forest is shaped like a pair of lungs, and the “death” area of the…

interesting biome includes the deciduous forest. This biome has many wonders and it’s the home to many fascinating creatures. The Kodkod is an example of one of the animals that live in this biome. The Kodkod has found great ways to adapt and survive in it’s habitat, the deciduous forest. Deciduous forests are located all over the world. From the eastern half of North America, the middle of Europe, Asia, to South America. Some of the major areas with deciduous forests include Southwest…