AP: Forestry
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Forestry
A robber industry
Forestry in some parts especially in Europe is more akin to agriculture than to traditional methods.
Types of Forests
1. Tropical Hardwood Forests -Evergreen rain forests and tropical monsoon forests.
- In monsoon forests trees are deciduous.
- Broadleaved and hardwood trees. Teak, Ebony, Mahogany etc.
2. Coniferous Forests -Lies north of the temperate hardwood belt.
- Conifers are tall, straight, evergreen trees with narrow, needle like leaves. Only a few conifers like Larch are deciduous
- Most coniferous trees are softwoods and are light in weight
- Although there is a wide variety of species in the Spruce, Pine, Fir and Larch families, the trees usually occur in pure stands consisting of one particular specie.
- Most dense, luxuriant coniferous forests are found in Western North America.
Areas
- Western N America (California, Washington, Oregon and SW Alaska in USA and British Columbia in Canada) Some of the largest trees like gigantic California Redwood or Sequoias are found in this region.
- Central and Eastern N America (more continental climate and thin soils of the Laurentian shield support less luxuriant and often more scattered type of coniferous forest)
- Southern USA (Virginia to Texas)
- N Europe (Scandinavia) and adjacent Russia along with some areas in north Britain, Germany and Central Europe uplands
- Asiatic Russia Much of Northern Siberia