USDA Forest Service Essays

The Secret Hippo Village By: Luca 0nce upon a time in a nice, calm forest there lived a nation of hippos. There was a special hippo named George. The king of the village, Ion, has more power than anyone else in the village including George. Ion also makes decisions in the Hippo Village. No one likes him but everybody listens to him because he’s HUGE! At least that 's what they say because nobody has actually ever seen him but they 've seen his minions

Changes in Surroundings Have you ever seen a forest? All the living things and the nonliving things surrounding an organism make up its environment. A living thing’s environment is all the things around it. Plants and animals are part of the environment. You can see many living things in the forest. All these trees are living things. You can see many nonliving things too. The soil is a nonliving thing. A deer is a living thing. Any living thing is called an organism. Rocks are nonliving things.

Research shows why deforestation of rainforests happen around the world and why should we care. Introduction During this modernization era, more and more rainforests are actually disappearing from the surface of the Earth very quickly without us realizing it. Rainforests are said to be covering almost one third of the Earth’s surface providing lots of environmental benefits such as the prevention of climate change, soil conservation, preservation of biodiversity and the hydrologic cycle (Chakravarty

It is to be held accountable for around eight tenths of the destruction of the rainforest on the South African continent, and makes up almost 15% of all deforestation worldwide. Removal of the forest to make space to keep animals has been occurring since the early 1960s, where local farmers realised that the agriculture they were trying to sustain was simply unprofitable in the long run due to the poor soil they had to utilise. They implemented

Most people in Honduras live in the north where most of the factories for work are located, but indigenous people and anyone else living in the rural areas deal with most of the effects of deforestation. When you remove large areas of forest the climate will begin to change and effect anyone living around it. Since Honduras is a poor country it is harder to protect yourself from environmental changes. Also, by deforestation the water sources they use are no longer protected and leave

Introduction Rainforests are populated with insects, arachnids, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals and worms. The rainforest is home to more than half of the world 's animals. The rainforest is a very dense, warm and wet biome. So, where are the rainforests? Most rainforests are located in a latitude band around the equator between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Below is a map of the major rainforests over the world. Strata The rainforest contains of four different layers

by NASA Earth Observatory it discusses Tropical rain forests, Sub-tropical forests, Mediterranean forests, Temperate forests, Coniferous forests, Montana and Plantation forest and how they are a vital storehouse of biodiversity, sustaining millions of different animals, birds, algae and fish species. The problem of tropical deforestation is now recognized as a very serious and important issue throughout the globe. No matter what type of forest it is they are being cut down to make more room for the

Anna Tikhomirova Courtney P2 2/13/2018 10 on 1 “It’s a tree, Lu. A chokecherry tree. See, here’s the trunk - it’s red and split wide open, full of sap, and this here’s the parting for the branches.You got a mighty lot of branches. Leaves, too, look like, and dern if these ain’t blossoms. Tiny little cherry blossoms just as white. Your back got a whole tree on it. In bloom. What God have in mind, I wonder.” (Page 79) Over the course of reading the novel Beloved, I came across a fascinating

Sustainable forest management requires three major criteria which are the maintenance of ecological processes within the forest (soil formation, energy flow, biogeochemical cycles (carbon, nutrient and hydrological cycles), maintenance of biodiversity of forest, improving the net social benefits derived from the mixture of forest uses within the constraints by considering the future. Forest provides habitats for more than half of the fauna and flora on the Earth (SCBD, 2001). Forest biome plays

Living and native to the forests of African, its home to hundreds of epidemic animal species, and supposedly no where else in the world. There are many species of the colobus monkeys all with their own appearance. There are three types of colobus the Black and white (genus Colobus), Red Colobus (genus Pillocolobus), and the Oliver colobus (genus Procolobus). The colobus monkey are consider part of the clarification of mammals, as most of the species an earth started. Colobus monkey spits off

NEED OF PROJECT Shiels et al (2013) Rattus rattus is among the most prevalent intrusive vertebrates on different continents. It thrives in different environments where humans are not present. R rattus is more common in limited forest ranges. It is more dangerous in case of destruction of crops and stored foods than any other pests and vector of different diseases. It has aboreal living style and omnivore and eat every type of food as grain, fruit etc.Rattus rattus (black rat) is omnivores. They

Cutting down trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s waves throughout the daytime and holds in heat at night. This disturbance leads to additional life-threatening temperatures swings that can be risky to plants and animals. Trees also play a serious

Mother Natural Network, world’s most visited online network for news and information related to environment suggests going paperless as a solution to deforestation (Sevedge par. 3). Paper is widely used all around the world and geting rid of them would certainly reduce number of trees cut down. Upstream Policy Institute (UPI), an organization dedicated in creating healthy society by addressing causes of environmental harm reports, every year, paper thrown in trash represent around 640 million trees

Introduction: Description: Deforestation is defined as the permanent destruction of forests in order to make land available for other uses. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 18 million acres of forest are lost each year. This equals to approximately 36 football fields of forest being cleared each minute. Though deforestation occurs all over the world, it’s the tropical forests which are being particularly targeted. Due to this countries such as Indonesia,

Rainforest have different types of weather patterns , different types locations and different type of species of animals, and plants . According to Ecological Research (2000) An equatorial rainforest in the coastal region of West Sumatra suffered a long period of dry and hazy weather in 1997. Many animals that live in rainforests are threatened by distinction , because the rainforest population is getting smaller and some of the animals will not be safe. They can die because of starvation

101-1998 Environmental Impact of deforestation In the Pacific Northwest The first people to explore the wilderness in what is now Oregon and Washington documented beautiful forests of mesmerizingly large trees as far as the eye can see. The explorer’s initial reports brought in people who came to make a profit off the forest and the vast amounts of lumber it could provide. Lumber mills were built before the area was even added to the union. The environmental footprint started out small, but the lack

live where we belong, on our own land. Our people have lived in these forests for 12,000 years, and our use of the land and its resources is sustainable. Although some Native Amazonian people live much as we do, others still live much as did their ancestors 12 thousand of years before them. These communities organize their daily lives differently than our culture. Their food, medicines and clothing come primarily from the forest. The Native Amazonians hunt, fish, and grow crops on small plots.

Old growth forests are rare to come by, especially in the United States. The Camillus Unique Forest Area, located in northeastern New York, has many characteristics of an old growth forest. It is unclear how old the forest actually is, as the tree species that reside there have a life span of 100-200 years. This could mean that the forest is thousands of years old, with hundreds of generations of these species, or only a few hundred years old, with the first generation just reaching maturity. Either

to another, where it depends on how much it is useful for them. Many areas of the Amazon land is being used illegally for industrial work. Logging are cutting down trees for wood use to make paper, furniture and other items. As well as burning the forest to make an extra space for planting crops, and building roads. Roads serve easy access in the heart of the Amazon. Species are dying and losing their habitats, which make them extinct. Building mines and oil wells

The deforestation is causing different types of problems around the world. One of the effects of deforestation is the change of animals’ life, animals are losing their habitat, and due to this more species are being extinct. In the article “Amazon Due for Numerous Species Extinctions”, Castro (2012) wrote that the Amazon have a lot of different species of animals, he said as well that the deforestation is a cause of the extinct of the animals and these animals are been extinct slowly, but eventually