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Forest sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Forest.

Mangroves illustration: showing the coastal habitat and their benefits in protecting, stabilising, nurturing and sequesteringMangrovesPonderosa pine and its bark listing out some of the fire protections it hasPonderosa pine fire protectionsWhat is a time Hierarchy example explained: a lush, verdant, coniferous alpine forest is depicted as a means of explaining the range of layers within any durable system that develop at different speeds. From the individual needles on the trees that develop over a year, to the surrounding biome, 10,000 years in the making. Time hierarchyWhat is a nurse log - a fallen giant tree providing a linear nursery for young treesNurse logWhy do leaves change colour in fall and Autumn and what compounds make the colours?Autumn leaves and the compounds that cause their coloursWho cut down the last tree illustration: 300 years ago we see someone cutting down a tree with an axe in a large dense forest. 100 years ago we see someone cutting down a tree in a now much more sparse forest. Today, there's only a small sapling left, and someone just snapped a branch off it. So what next? Who cut down the last tree?Forest bathing illustration — shinrin-yokuForest bathing
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