Saving the Old Growth Forests

Saving old growth forests Old growth forests in the United States are endangered resources. Ancient forests are wasted unnecessarily and are getting smaller over time. Organizations that manage the logging industry and the majority of the rest of the old growth (about 5%) can not see their value from an ecological / spiritual point of view, so if so, tomorrow's children today You may never see the history of. Do not take a stand right now to prevent other people's myopia from destroying what is ultimately ours.

Environmentalists who are trying to protect the virgin forest found owls to stop logging. They asked the government to discover the owl in the list of endangered species. If an owl is considered to be in danger of extinction harassment, injury, or murder of an animal becomes illegal, important habitats are protected regardless of economic or political influence. The Fish and Wildlife Service ban the logging within 70 acres of the known owl nest. This will greatly reduce the amount of logging on the federal land. The amount of harvested fell from 10.6 billion ft in 1990 to less than 1 billion ft in 1992. In the small town economy the wood sales declined and it was devastatingly hit, the local ironworks were closed and the unemployment rate rose by 20%. Wood factories such as Ochoco Lumbermill in Prineville, Oregon are closed

There is a big difference in terms of the number of animals and plants that live there, particularly between the industrially harvested boreal forest and the ancient boreal forest. There are many rare and brittle species that can not survive without ancient forests. Industrial logging has destroyed and destroyed these forests for many years.

Boreal forest is not as long as many ancient deciduous forests. Many northern forests can mature, but frequent disturbances often prevent forests from entering a post-success stage. Insects are one of the most common disturbances to make these forests too old. For example, in North America, the spruce bark beetle kills millions of mature spruce trees each year. Beetles were excavated between the bark and the trees and ate the formations. After all, the trees can not carry their nutrients, it will die. Beetle attacks young trees and old trees, but young trees are more likely to protect themselves than mature trees and are not affected by beetle invasion. Beetle prevalence is a natural component of the northern forest, but global climate change made it possible to accelerate their life cycle, and the damage caused by the beetle attack increased.