Forest

To a child, a forest is a place where they can explore and let their imagination run free without parental interference, but the Puritan culture of the 1600s portrayed the forest as the devils playground where people go, only to bring evil back to their supposed perfect society. Nathaniel Hawthorne displays the clash between these conflicting perspectives in his book The Scarlet Letter (1850). The story is set in seventeenth-century Boston that is surrounded by wilderness, as most American…

fulfilment in life; which were the Pygmies. Turnbull then wrote a book called “The Forest People”, which Turnbull spent three years studying about the Mbuti Pygmies; who lives in the Ituri rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In “The forest people”, Turnbull display the world of the Pygmy tribe, its environment, and how pygmies adopt to its surrounding in order to survive its everyday life. The Ituri Forest located at the middle of the map of Africa, at the corner of the Belgian…

Old growth is a term used in forest community ecology to convey a very late successional stage, where the dominant tree species in the location has attained a very old age. Ecologically, old growth forest is very important, therefore, measurements and indexes should be used to reflect the value these habitats hold. I suggest that an old-growth habitat index be used…

In the novella, Anthem, written by Ayn Rand. There are two major destinations, The Uncharted Forest and the City that everyone lives in. The City is the only place that anyone in that world has ever known. They’ve heard of the Uncharted Forest but as a scare tactic or in the history their world. These two places are completely different. One has a jungle mangy like feel and the other is sophisticated and orderly. In the City, everyone follows their rules and puts the group before themselves.…

A world without forests is unimaginable. They are amid the planet’s most unique ecosystems, accounting for nearly three quarters of our earthly biodiversity. Forests provide countless benefits such as habitats for animals, unique ecosystems with a variety of plants and bacteria, and a large variety of ecological services. They are beneficial to humans, their inhabitants, and the earth in which we live. However, recent studies reveal that deforestation has diminished nearly three-quarters of…

“According to a 2007 study by the World Bank, Indonesia is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases after America and China, mostly because of the destruction of forests and peatlands”(“Logging the good news; Indonesia’s forests”).This happens when land clearing plantations and farmers in Indonesia decide to clear land by creating forests fires that wipe out trees. This creates problems like high carbon emissions being released, toxic regional haze, deforestation, and the endangering of…

personal essay measures work-ethic, leadership and diversity among students. Standardized tests only represents how well a student can perform on a wide-range of material that can be attributed to strategy rather than knowledge. Schools such as Wake Forest have based their application on more of an “individualistic” approach by interviewing their prospects. The University’s Director of Admissions stated “The interview adds dimension to the application and allows us to get to know students…

The proposed Great Forest National Park is an area of mostly unprotected forest located in Victoria. The GFNP proposal will add 355,000 hectares of protected forests to the 170,000 hectares of protected areas in the Central Highlands. The proposed park is made up of current State Forest, Special Protection Zones and existing Parks and Reserves as seen in figure 12 and 14. The area is home to large ash forests, rainforest and vine thickets, eucalyptus tall open and open forests and woodlands.…

Marys Peak - Fir Forests Lindsay Liddell FES 342 Professor Matthew Powers MWF 10-11am Due: 10/19/15 Marys Peak is a mountain in Benton County, Oregon. At the top of the peak, on a clear day, one can see the cities of the Willamette Valley, the Cascade Range, and the Pacific Ocean. It is known for its meadows of wildflowers in spring and its fir forests uniquely populated with noble firs (Abies procera). Little data is available regarding the trees age, but there is clear variance in age,…

1. Forest Grove in Saskatoon is an area that has not had much focus on their community’s personal and local health. I have been living here since September and I get the impression that people keep to themselves more than necessary since we do not have any substantial community centers or local community events to bring people together. This atmosphere may affect a person’s personal health because of the potential for people to be isolated in their own homes, not feeling welcomed by their…