Forestry Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (53) essays
Forestry essays:
Logging the rainforest
... Industrial logging is the main cause of forest loss throughout the tropics. It is the starting point of a process leading to the forests' final destruction and substitution by agricultural crops, cattle raising or monoculture tree plantations ...
Endangered Species
... of threatened species include the bald eagle and the California red-legged frog. The bald eagle is our national bird and is the only eagle unique to North America. There are an estimated 4,500 bald eagles in the United States. Although the bald eagle is on the federal list of threatened species ...
Endangered Species Act
... President Nixon was quoted saying, "Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed." Over the past thirty years, many animals have been added to the endangered species list and have benefited ...
Deciduous Forests - An introduction to the forrests in NY
... of forests in Europe due to glacial history. Glacial action dumped till as the ice edge retreated, and North America inherited a fertile soil base. Soil type is an important factor for which species of trees can thrive in an area. The general dominant tree species for temperate deciduous forests ...
Host Plant Phenology and it's impact on Sympatric Speciation
... and utilization by whiteflies on a variety of floricultural crops, 2) the importance of insect community structure and biomass distribution in determining the habitat quality of several endangered species of vertebrate insectivores. Works Cited Abrahamson, W. G., and ...
Forest Fire: Help or Harm?
... United States Forest Service and the United States Congress have been working together to find a way to carefully restore fire to forested areas. However, environmental groups are trying to keep fire out of all forests. In 2002, President Bush launched the Healthy Forest ...
The Mortality of the Red Spruce and Fraser Fir in the Appalachians due to Air Pollution
... and Southeast part of the Unites States and are blown by prevailing winds into the Appalachian Mountains (Peters 1999). Bill Jackson, an air resource specialist at the National Forests in North Carolina, explained how these air pollutants get into the mountains and kill the trees ...
Save the Owls, preserve the forests
... of old growth forests, I feel that it is necessary to preserve the profitable lumber in its natural state for future generations. Currently, the tons of lumber produced from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States are taken for granted, and most people do not realize that the forests ...
American Forests Advocacy Paper
... forest and paper industries plant 1.7 billion trees a year. They care for their land. The government owns most United States forests. They need to take care of our land" (President's Message). According to American Forests inaction towards the benefits on federal forests ...
Main Causes of Deforestation
... of damage of forest vegetation to the extent that the effected area can no longer support its natural flora and fauna (Thomson, www.dmc.engr.wisc.edu). I think that the four main causes of deforestation which interrelate with each other are logging, agriculture, ranching and ...