Essay On The Forest

The government of Canada has decided to implement a 30 year plan, which will cost over 2 billion dollars, it includes using insecticides and traps to eliminate Emerald Ash Borers and further infections in ash trees. Another negative effect is Emerald Ash Borer’s ability to consume white fringe tree, a close relative of ash trees, which is a sign that Emerald Ash Borers might be able to infect different types of tree in the future. Emerald Ash Borer has caused a slowdown in Canada’s forestry industry due to the death of many ash trees, which will mean slower economic growth for Canada, since we rely a lot on forestry products. Emerald Ash Borer has been increasing in population rapidly due to a lack of enough predators. As Emerald Ash Borer continue to threaten our forests, which has provided us with camping grounds, shade, and oxygen for years will be at risk. Ash trees are also an important part in preventing clogged river, streams, and water-treatment plant because of soil slides resulting from rain. Trees normally holds on to the soil to prevent clogged rivers and streams, but with Emerald Ash Borers wiping out million of ash tree and putting billions more at risk, it could disrupt the delicate balance between trees and soil. Researchers expect ash tree mortality rates will have ecological impacts on animals that rely on ash

Lastly, one of the biggest benefits of the Wisconsin’s Managed Forest Law at the state level has been its effects on Wisconsin’s forests’ ecosystems. Within forests, the MFL has helped to provide wildlife habitat for game and threatened/ endangered species, maintain forest ecosystem health and vitality, conserve and maintain water and soil resources on and around forestland, and promote forest conservation and biological diversity (Gass 10). To help aid in creating sustainable forest environments, the Wisconsin MFL requires that landowners follow mandatory practices including: releasing trees from competing vegetation, reforesting land to meet minimum forest density standards, performing pre and post harvest treatments to insure forest regeneration,

The authors in this article explored the following questions: Firstly, if the constant reproduction of pine beetles in whitebark pine in high elevation is a consequence of their eruption in lodgepole pine or it represent some initial changes in the system due to changes in temperature. Secondly, with changing climatic conditions how insects determine their choices of host plant species. Thirdly, what is the reaction of other natural enemies to pine beetles attack to whitebark versus lodgepole pine? They tested the hypothesis if the mountain pine beetles attack lower defensive host like whitebark pine while expanding their range to high elevations due to increasing high temperatures. Previous research suggests that either whitebark pine should

Cutting down of trees is one environmental issue that has plagued the world for the past few decades. The reason for this is the fact that there has been an increased use of timber and an increase in population and the need for human settlement has ensured that an increased number of trees have been cut down.

Things change over time, and this is evident throughout Heiberg Memorial Forest. There are areas of the forest that are younger than others, some formerly clear-cut for agriculture, and others are older and less affected by humans. To compare the characteristics of different tree stands of varying ages, three spots were chosen and analyzed in Heiberg Forest.

Far along down the creek there was me and my two friends. Their names are Gage and Tyler. We were just a couple of sophomores wandering around aimlessly on the very familiar, local road that was by the name of Bundschu until we came across some woods that we were always so curious about. Well, that is when we decided to enter into the woods and walk down the muddy and rocky creek in seeking for a great adventure. I was much more eager than my two buddies to get to the end of the creek which is why I was running while they stayed behind carefully and walked. We soon arrived to the end of the creek and came upon a tree bridge, a graffiti infested tunnel, a big hill and the actually Bundschu road itself.

A taiga is a type of coniferous forest and is also referred to as a boreal forest. The taiga is the world’s largest terrestrial biome and makes up 29 percent of the earth’s forest coverage.

Romance Of the Forest The Romance of the Forest is a gothic novel written by Ann Radcliffe. Earlier in the semester we learned about writings from the Romanticism Era. Writings from that era often took place in castles or large houses and often included supernatural elements and mysteries. That era was also known for its focus on individualism. The Romance of the Forest is a gothic novel that entails many of the elements focused on during the Romanticism Era.

When an exotic pest enters an area and finds a suitable host tree, the lack of evolutionary resistance to the pest in that host tree, along with the lack of natural predators for the pest in that area, often creates a deadly combination (Foster et al. 2014). The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA, Adeleges tsugae) is one such exotic pest that has had devastating consequences in eastern North America in recent years. HWA is a small adelgid native to Japan that was first found on ornamental Japanese hemlocks (Tsuga sieboldii) in Richmond, Virginia in 1951 (Ward et al. 2004). Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is the most long-lived and shade-tolerant tree species in eastern North America, and it, along with its relic species of Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana) is currently being decimated by HWA, of which it has no natural defenses against (Ward et al. 2004).

The Darkest Part of the Forest is a great book about how a girl must defeat evil before it is too late. The story takes place in the eyes of hazel and lets you experience the adventure from her eyes. Sometimes throughout the book it goes from Hazel’s point of view to the point of view of some of the other characters like her brother Ben and her friend jack gordon. I love how it takes place in a town just outside of a forest. This book has the great message of be careful what you wish for mentally cause when it happens thing can take a turn for the worse.

Like most parasites, these insects prefer to attack weak and declining trees. But talk of prevention is really no help to someone who has a serious problem with these

Suzanne Simard announces her discovery about forest as a single living organism. She explains how trees can communicate with one another through their roots and soils by transferring carbon dioxides and other chemicals such as nitrogens, phosphorus, water, hormones, and etc. Basically, she depicts a forest as a community with individuals as trees in which they communicate through their roots and symbiosis called mycelium. Simard is trying to bring awareness about clear cutting forest and how it can affect climate change such as the hydrological cycles, wildlife habitats, greenhouse gases, disturbances, and tree diebacks. By educating others about forestry, she wants to show that forests are alive and they play a major part in our ecosystem.

The host, stress, and pathogen hypothesis describes decline as a disease. This theory suggests that some form of environmental stress alters the host tissues making it vulnerable to pathogen invasion. The pathogen thus invaded weakens the plant tissues leading to tree decline (Ciesla and Donaubauer, 1994). The synchronous cohort senescence hypothesis considers decline as a part of forest dynamics involving various interacting factors. This concept considers that certain sudden eliciting environmental factors such as drought and flood predispose the trees to pest and pathogen attacks (Ciesla and Donaubauer, 1994).

world can not continue to ignore. 14 percent of the Earth's land used to be

The study site was located in British Columbia, Canada. The site was selected base on its abundance of lodgepole pine; a favoured tree of the mountain pine beetle. The area covered approximately 30 million hectares of the province 95 million hectare land mass. The pine distribution data collected from the AOS which was 1 km resolution raster cells where each cell is represented by the estimated percentage of pine at the location from the years 2002 to 2006. The method was carried out in three parts (i.e. organising data, predicting risk classes, risk rating evaluation). Firstly, the authors prepared the data in ArcGIS where they overlaid AOS data onto basemaps then classified the data into risk severity categories (light,