Forest Essays

Forest Fires have become one of our nation’s biggest obstacles. In the world, there are 10,000 wildfires that burn up to four million to five million acres a year. Most wildfires are started by one of two ways either by humans or naturally started. Most natural fires are caused by …

The major economic activity of the Upper West Region is agriculture with extremely and difficult challenging conditions for farmers. Known as the poorest region in the country with one cropping season, climate change, the elimination or reduction in fallow and the lack of strategies and policies to return enough resources …

Have you ever heard the saying that the rainforest are the lungs of the Earth? Did you know “an estimated 18 million Acres of forest roughly the size of Panama are lost each year, according to the United Nations food and Agriculture Organization” (Guy-Allen,2014). Rainforests are dying at the hands …

The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, covering 2,100,000 miles across South America. Since 1978, the Amazon has lost about 300,000 miles of rain forest. By the early 2000s, more than three-quarters of forest clearing in the Amazon was for cattle-ranching. However, it’s not just cattle-ranching, the Amazon …

What is happening to the Earth? Our home is becoming a barren mass of sorrow. Most people in America are blind to what is going on. Could it be that every individual is just turning a cheek the other way? America is faced with an extremely serious problem, and if …

While speaking of the moral and ethical views of forest fires, there are several aspects that can be held considerable; one of which is: Who is responsible for forest fires? Who should we blame? Is the government the cause of these fires, are they not investing sufficient money? Or is …

The Forestry Commission was set up in the 1920’s, after WW1. Its main objective was to make lots of timber reserves, just in case for another war. The timber was used in trenches and in mines. It ignored some aspects of countryside management until recently. This was because they just …

Background Information: Oak trees are occasionally covered on one side, with an orange looking substance. This is due to the presence of a simple alga called Trentepholia aurea (Trentepholiaceae). It is made up of filaments of cells that contain high concentrations of carotene, giving it the bright orange colour. Hypothesis: …

Have you ever heard of ‘coniferous forest’? Now, I am going to talk about the interesting facts about the coniferous forest (also called ‘taiga’ or ‘boreal forest’). The coniferous forest is mainly in the northern hemisphere, and some in the southern hemisphere. It is mostly in North America (US), Canada, …

Setting: A small cottage in the Hurtgen Forest near the German-Belgian border . Christmas Eve in 1994 towards the end of World War II in Europe. Plot: It was Christmas Eve, there is a knocked in the cottage of a mother and her son. They quickly blew the candle and …