Old growth forests

Exploring the Olympic National Park Region on Foot Located in the northwest of Washington State, this 900,000-acre park is renowned for its natural wonders. Under the haze that surrounds the Pacific coast and wooded area, you can find big trees, rugged coastlines, and some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Mount Olympus is the tallest peak in the region at almost 8,000 feet in height. You’ll be amazed at the snowcapped peaks and slow-moving glaciers that make up a rainforest as…

African elephant. The African elephant is the larger of the two and is also sub classed into the African forest elephant and…

tribes all over the world, especially in the Amazon region, deforestation has been a prominent issue. Rapid deforestation started in the Amazon around the 20th century and has increased through the beginning of the current century. Certain regions of forest has been eradicated for farms, dams, natural resources, and for an expansion of the modern world. Consequently, indigenous tribes are being forced from their lands and brutally harmed. Deforestation in the Amazon causes a decrease in the…

are different some are big and some are small. Although all of these rainforest do have something in common they are all tropical rainforest. The climate of a rainforest is very humid. It is humid because all of the rain they get there. A rain forest usually gets 250 centimeters which is equal to eight feet of rain a year. That is a lot of…

The effect of Deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Study of Liberia’s Vast Rain forest Liberia is located in West Africa and is comprised of vast natural resources which include areas of one of Africa’s largest rainforest which is interconnected to the forests of neighboring countries. Agricultural activities, including; both legal and illegal logging, settlement urbanization and mining, to name a few, continue to negatively contribute to causing deforestation. This process often leads to…

travels to America, no one said to get the species into the USA. Most people call this plant by Kudzu, but its scientific name in “Pueraria lobata” , this species belongs to the plant kingdom. Kudzu has had a negative effect on the environment in forests and local ecosystems its biggest impact is on the South. Kudzu is a quick-growing east Asian climbing plant…

On the Adirondack Trip, a nice man named Paul discussed how they were managing their forests. Their forest tree species composition has been changing with sugar maple trees were becoming less abundant. This is partly caused by beech trees outcompeting the maples due to the stressor of beech bark disease. When a beech tree is affected by the disease, the stressor stimulates the tree to respond through the production of root suckers. These root suckers, which are genetic clones of their parent…

pathogen(Phytophthora ramorum) and then we purposely let them sit on a high elevation in a clean sanitary classroom for seven day. After that we collected our data of the growth of necrosis and the frequency. With this experimental setup, it can be possible to answer the golden question, which is, “does the color of light impact the growth of the pathogen. This setup is limited only to the area of california bay laurels in pepperwood preserve since we only collected our samples…

Forests produce vital oxygen for people and wildlife. The world’s most vulnerable and endangered life exist in forests and 1.6 billion people rely on the benefits that they offer. Forests have integral part in maintaining the climate, however, man chooses to use this precious resource for his selfish purposes without any regard to the beautiful life it protects and shelters. Deforestation is one of the biggest threats to the planet and if we continue to exploit it at the pace we are going, they…

frogs, parrots, sloths, and jaguars. There’s three levels of the rainforest; the forest floor where plants don’t grow because there is almost no sunlight. Understory layer where little sunshine reaches this area so the plants need to have big leaves to capture sunlight. Canopy layer where most of the trees have oval leaves that are pointy. Then the tallest trees are the emergents, which are over 200 feet above the forest floor. The rainforests provided our human ancestors with a supply of…