Trees of Michigan

Forests cover a third of all land on Earth, providing vital organic infrastructure for some of the planet's densest, most diverse collections of life. They support countless species as well as 1.6 billion human livelihoods, yet humans are also responsible for 32 million acres of deforestation every year. Why are forests so important?? 1. They help us breathe Forests pump out the oxygen we need to live and absorb the carbon dioxide we exhale (or emit). Just one adult leafy tree can produce as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year. Plankton are more prolific, providing half of Earth's oxygen, but forests are still a key source of breathable air. 2. They're more than just trees, nearly half of all known species live in forests,…

Cayuta, N.Y. (WENY) -- This winter's unseasonably warm weather is creating a change for maple syrup producers. The shift in temperatures has many farmers unsure of when or how long their tapping season will last. Even though many syrup producers begin to tap their trees in mid-February to mid-March, this season's unpredictable weather have put maple producers in a sticky situation. "The weather this year has us kind of scrambling. With some of the recent storms, and a lot of wind, we've…

A Swinger of Birches Hardened by the daily toils and responsibilities, the soft innocence of youth is easily forgotten with age. Walking through the woods in solitude, a man lets his busy mind wander for a moment. With the sight of trees swaying in the wind, his mind understands that the heavy ice and snow is what bends the thin trees. But his heart wonders if it was a boy’s doing – climbing to the top of the trees just to bend them enough so he can let go and fall safely to the ground – that…

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but I see those words not in details in the picture, but the stories and lesson it speaks. I look at a picture that looks like any other you would typically see. It’s only a picture of a smiling boy in a frozen forest. But to me, I see a story and a life of someone in a different mindset that I can relate to. This person was not as adventurous and I would have liked, but once it came down to it, I didn't regret involving myself in these…

What kind of journey is the speaker thinking about what metaphorical journey is going on? How does the speakers ideas change. How can the poem be related to the heroes journey? It seam that the speaker is explaining the life of a boy through his adventures with the outside world, specifically birch trees. In the first lines the speaker shows his attentiveness towards the birch tree. He watches the birch trees “bend to left and right.” The speaker examines the trees so closely because the tree…

In Anderson’s book Speak, Anderson uses this quote “This looks like a tree, but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it make it bend— trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch— perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.” (Anderson pg.153). Meaning, people go through many things in their life and hide their scars where no one will notice and raise any questions that pass the mind. You may see a…

shrubs. Without willows to eat, beavers declined. Without beaver dams, fast-flowing streams cut deeper into the terrain. The water table dropped below the reach of willow roots. Now it’s too late for even high levels of wolf predation to restore the willows.” This shows that the wolves were a keystone species and were essential for Yellowstone to have so that there would not be a trophic cascade. The wolves were the reason that biodiversity was increased in Yellowstone and they show how…

Imagine all the trees are gone, and everything is plastic. We run off man-made air. There is one tree left and it is owned by the government and you can’t get closed to it. Roosevelt’s claim relates to Autumnime with vital reasons of how we should conserve our resources better before they are all gone. In Autumntime everyone is living off of man-made air. There are no real trees left, but one. The government owns it, nobody is allowed to go very close to it. One child takes an acorn after…

communicating with nature energetically is in reality more compensating than the obligations that go with grown-up life. In great composition there are normally various conceivable topics. It relies upon how the reader sees the function. In "Birches" we may state that the subject is something like "the memory of the joy of youth is a relief from the cares of adult life." Or, on the off chance that one wanted to work the possibility of nature into a topic, we may state, "The interaction of man…

The character Tree-ear in the story A Single Shard is a poor orphan boy from Korea who lives in Ch’ulp’o with a wise elderly man named Crane-man and worked for Min the master potter that had several different characteristic changes and also even mental changes. From the beginning from the end of the novel A Single Shard. In the beginning, he is more timid and hesitant than he was in contrast with the end when he is more brave and forward thinking. Tree-ear was a curious kid at the beginning…