Black Forest

The lumber industry may have been the most important industry in the world. Lumber was a very important to the people of early Minnesota, because of the harsh winters the people faced. When lumberjacks would go out to eat food they would use a type of language that most people wouldn't understand. Some of the words they used were like sweat pads which meant pancakes, and blackjack which was coffee. The lumberjacks used old but up to date tools at this time. The tools include cross cut saws,

protective bark comprised of stacked plates that sometimes like like puzzle pieces Location in columbia river basin: They grow at lower elevations, forming the arid timberline where the forest transitions to shrub-steppe and grasslands. The Ponderosa pine also extends into the moister, cooler, mid elevation forests Range: The range of ponderosa pine extends from southern Canada into Mexico, and from the Plains States of Nebraska and Oklahoma to the Pacific Coast Trophic Level: The Ponderosa Pine

Forest fragmentation is when a patch of forest habitat is isolated by a sea of human transformed land. When a habitat is fragmented, species are killed in the destruction, while the remaining species flee into the fragment or intact area. Research has shown that forest fragments have reduced densities of key mammalian seed dispersers (Laurance et al., 2011). This decrease in mammalian

chain. Why did the deforestation happen in each instance, and what was the immediate cause? a. Ancient Middle East: Forests were abundant, there was growth of cedar trees at one point in time. However these forests soon began to deplete at a freighting rate. In this cases in The epic of Gilgamesh the author spoke about how humans will one day remove all the trees from the forests, because there is nothing that could stop them. The cause was guided by greed, though the immediate cause was for resources

The whitebark pine is a five needled conifer that occurs typically in high elevation, upper subalpine habitats ranging from timberline, where it may occur as stunted krummholz, down to closed subalpine forest (COSEWIC 2010). Whitebark pine is prevalent in the coastal mountain regions of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, and in the Rocky Mountain ranges of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada. This species is geographically isolated due its specific habitat qualities. Whitebark

What is a tardigrade, and how did it get the title of The World’s Most Resistant Creature? It all started in the year of 1773, scientist Johann August Ephraim Goeze discovered this micro-organism. Johann Ephraim was a German zoologist; he did his work with aquatic invertebrates, particularly insects, and worms, but in 1773 he described the tardigrade. He was the first person to describe the tardigrade and named it Kleiner Wasserbär meaning “little water bear”. The reason he named the tardigrade this

OK. Let’s continue our discussion about animal behavior by talking about decisions that animals face, complex ones. Animals, even insects, carry out what look like very complex decision making processes. The question is how. I mean no one really thinks that, say a bee goes through weighing the pros and cons of pollinating this flower or that flower. But then how do animals solve complex questions, questions that seem to require decision making. The answer we’ll propose of course is that their behavior

Tardigrades: The Toughest Animals on the Planet The Origin For many years scientists have thought that Tardigrades were extraterrestrial beings, but their evolution paths can be traced back to organisms on Earth, 520 million years ago. This means that the Tardigrade has survived all of the mass extinction events, that is not an easy feat. Your adaptations have to be godly, your structure would have to be ideal, you would have to almost immortal... Essential; For the Tardigrades Humans and most

currently endangered animals so are not seen as much as the leopards. Some other species that accompany the rest of the forest floor animals include mongoose, tapirs, Southern Cassowaries, okapis, armadillos, rainforest pigs and gorillas. Rainforest pigs include wild boars and their

you think of fire, you typically will think of destruction, but with the right fire regime in certain ecosystems it can actually help the area become more successful. Due to the degradation of the longleaf pine forests, prescribed burning has become a necessary factor to keep the forests successful (Lavoie et al., 2014). The biodiversity of the longleaf pin ecosystem depends on a lot of rainfall, porous, sandy soils, and a cycle of fires (Greenberg, 2002). Longleaf pine trees have a tolerance of