The Sad Fate of Our Old Growth Forests

The tragic destiny of our ancient growing forest The Pacific coast Northwest has a spectacular ancient forest - a history of thousands of years. The poker is straight and almost innocent, with 200-250 feet of Redwood, Rosewood and Douglas trees rising from the forest floor and killing the hillside with one of the most precious natural resources in the world. The substances we call trees can satisfy all the needs of living things. People rely on evacuation centers, furniture and trees harvested for heat, but wildlife relies on firewood and dead trees to produce food, shelter and predator covers as a means of survival.

The old growth report provides a variety of ecological, social and spiritual values, seeing that old growing forests are valuable natural resources worth protecting, restoring, and managing I will. From southern Virginia to the southeastern Florida forest, old communities growing are rare or rarely present. The existing old habitat (called the "main forest") can occupy about 0.5% (about 482,000 acres) of the total land area of ​​88,079,000 acres (Davis 1996). For these reasons, the southern region's national forest works to restore more of this part of the forest ecosystem.

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.