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Introduction:
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The normal climate of a forest is usually warm and damp. Sometimes during the winter it gets cold in some forests. In the Mid fall when it starts to get cold the leaves start falling off some of the trees. Many trees like fir and holly don't lose their leaves. In the Winter when it's cold, there are no leaves on many trees. In the Springtime, new green leaves grow, and in the Summer there are green leaves again on all of the trees. Also in some forests it snows in the Winter.
In forests there are lots of living things. One thing is animals. There are all sorts. Like birds, deer, snakes, rabbits, mice, insects, and many more. Animals could not live without forests because forests provide food.
Animals eat other animals and plants. The plants that animals eat are ferns, mosses, liverworts, mushrooms, wild flowers, and japanese yew. Also, a kind of moss, sometimes grows on tree branches.
Forests grew 360 million years ago from seeds. The tallest tree that has ever grown is in California and is 370 feet tall. The oldest living tree is 4,600 years old and is also in California. The largest tree is in the same California forest and is called the General Sherman Tree. It weighs 2,500 tons.
People who live in forests have to survive in the wild. They have to hunt there for food. They have to learn to cook different animals. Also they make their houses out of mud, mosses, sticks, logs, and stones.
In forests today, people are
causing a great deal of damage. They cut down trees that make our air
supply go down because trees provide oxygen. Also, sometimes people
cause forest fires, which can also cause damage to the forests.
Conservationists throughout the world try to preserve our forests by
controlling logging and sometimes even burning parts of the forests
so they can be renewed.
1997 World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia
1997 World Book Encyclopedia
Art Explosion 40,000 Images. Calabasas, CA: Nova Development