Taiga Forest

             The Taiga region reaches across the upper northern hemisphere. Following across Canada, Alaska, and northern New England. It is the largest land biome in the world that comprises approximately 29% of the Earth’s forest cover. Mainly in Russia and Canada, which stretches 3,600 miles from the Pacific Ocean near Russia to the Ural Mountains. This region is entirely

Every forest has a story to tell. By looking closely at its habitants, that story can be interpreted. Much of this narrative is written in the trees: their age, their tolerance to shade, and the rate at which they grow are all characteristics that can imply a lot about their environment. Exploring these relationships and how they connect with each other can indicate the health and history of the land. Heiberg Forest, located in northern New York, was once used for agricultural purposes in the 1800-1900’s. (Nowak, Lecture Notes) Much of the land once used for farming was left to regrow back into a young forest. The life history of different tree species can be determined by examining the most common species in Heiberg.

An article on NPR titled, Landmark Deal Protects over 9 Million Acres of Canadian Rain Forest by Merritt Kennedy is considered a victory for the environment. After 10 years, a deal protecting over 9 million acres of Canadian rain forest is now permanent. The area is located on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia and it is about the size of Ireland. It is a vast piece of land named “The Great Bear Rainforest,” and according to the report, “represents the largest tracts of intact temperate rainforest on Earth." The forest has a complex mixture of oceans, mountains, fjord, old forest, and salmon streams. A rarity amongst rain forest on Earth, therefore it took several years of negotiation before reaching a deal.

The topography of the island is also of note. The west end of the island features a closed-canopy forest with more hardwood trees. The east end of the island is better characterized as a “boreal forest,” a term used to describe regions that are mostly covered by coniferous forests. It is good to note that the balsam fir is found on both ends of the island, but that samples used in the study from the west end of the island were, on average, older, but shorter, than those samples found on the east side of the island.

The Taiga Shield Ecozone is made up of wetlands, shrublands, meadows and open forests. This Ecozone is a subarctic region therefore, the cold temperatures make it hard for vegetation to grow. There are trees, such as the coniferous species black and white spruce, tamarack, and dwarf pines. Most of them are stunted and do not reach full growth because of the climate. The tree line is at the northern edge of the Taiga Shield Ecozone and beyond the tree line is where the arctic tundra is. The soils found in this Ecozone are very thin and highly leached. The Taiga Shield has igneous, metamorphic and, sedimentary rock. These types of rocks are located in the Taiga Shield because of the volcanoes that formed it originally and the

There are pine trees just about everywhere in Georgia. Pine trees have always been important resources to people in North America. Native Americans used pine trees as treatments for respiratory conditions and to build items such as canoes or buildings. Today, pine trees are one the most important timber sources in North America. Pine trees belong to a group of trees known as the conifers, meaning the trees have cones and needle-like or scale-like leaves. There are about seven very common types of pine trees found in Georgia that grow in several different environments from the Appalachian Mountains all the way to the coast. Over many years pine trees have adapted to these very diverse environments.

The beautiful rare Daintree Rainforest land stretches out into a dense rainforest, that lays on lowland mountain ranges. With “fast flowing streams, waterfalls, and gorges” that twist and turn between the mountains that lead to the white sandy beaches that collide into the Coral Sea (“About the Daintree Rainforest”). The closely spaced trees cover (“Tropical Rainforest Biome”) the colorful flowers and plants throughout the rainforest (“About the Daintree Rainforest”). The Daintree Rainforest is a tropical rainforest biome that is “located on the northeast of Queensland, Australia” (“About the Daintree Rainforest”). Logging has been a problem to the one hundred and thirty-five million year old rainforest because they see the Daintree Rainforest

Those people who were very lucky to get the jobs in mills, factories and mainly inside the industry of meat packing. Jurgis was the most dissatisfied person, experiencing the terrible circumstances which workers met. Along with these terrible circumstances, they joined job for small amount of salaries with hard and very lengthy timings, and in the environment where safety of employer had no value. Initially, here was no any migrants to move to, thus several suffered enormously. Afterward he would study of worker unions and different other unions to help the employees, but unfortunately the initially times of his Americanized life were packed, with joblessness and throughout a demoralizing; painful and depressing “new begin” (Conlin, 2009, 444-449).

The location of the Daintree Rainforest is in one of the wettest climates of Australia

The life among the Eastern Woodlands was extremely different and interesting. It is very clear that they definitely had religious values. They had a church, or as classified, a place of assembly for prayer; along with prayer, they had dance ceremonies and a ceremonial fire. I can infer that they believed in a Great Spirit, which coordinated the world. I suspect that this world not only accommodated them, but also the plants and other surroundings. The corn is guarded, which definitely expresses how much it was valued in their society. There does not seem to be any animals present in the picture, which means they may have been used for food or clothing.

In the Lake of the Woods is about ghosts, personal and national, and about the impossibility of escaping them. Author Tim O’Brien poured much of his own likeness into protagonist John Wade. Wade grew up in Minnesota and like O’Brien, he served in Vietnam so he could maintain or get more love from his peers and family. Like O’Brien, he likely committed some wartime sins and like O’Brien, he cannot escape the past. However we see a key difference between the two mean as O’Brien confronts his personal demons through writing and admitting publicly his faults, while Wade prefers to suppress the past and at making all disagreeable memories disappear.

For my observation, I choose to visit the area of the Stanislaus National Forrest. I had wanted to see the changes over the few years from the rim fire. I headed up to the 120 towards Groveland and got as far as I could, but the road was closed. I stop for a moment to observe the area, and decided that I would take a different route to the area where I could look down below to see if I can catch anything with the Rim Fire affects.

Crash! There goes another tree, plummeting down to the Earth, in the Amazon rainforest. There goes less oxygen we breath everyday. There goes another living thing. The Amazon rainforest is suffering, and as the rainforest suffers, so do we. Business people usually don’t care about the Amazon, and, probably, use paper made from the rainforest trees, but that’s because they didn’t do their research in middle school. Some people say that the Amazon rainforest are the lungs of the Earth, but they could also be the heart as well. If we don’t save this rainforest, then our planet, along with us, with scourge gravely.

In Costa Rica there is small community located in Puntarenas, Costa Rica in the Cordillera de Tilarán. This community takes the name of Monteverde. Monteverde was created in the early 1950’s, when the a United State family arrive to Costa Rica looking for peace. The history state that some members of the family were imprisoned by he government due to not participating in the Korean War. After a few years Monteverde was colonised by a group of Costa Rican’s farmers.

When children need their mother’s help, she promises and prioritizes to be there for them. Shuntaro Tanikawa, author of the poem “River,” is a passionate poet and writer, although he despised schooling or attending college. Tanikawa’s poetic imagination revolves around western influence, but he writes his works as a search for “universal consciousness.” The “universal consciousness” emphasizes values, such as ones for money, family, or life, and Tanikawa focuses this poem with the value of relationships. Tanikawa utilizes symbolism and imagery to emphasize the significance of community bonds by comparing them with the river and the things around it.