The complete online text of In the Forest by Catharine Parr Traill.

Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) was a Canadian naturalist and author who wrote books for children, studies of Canadian flowers and plants, and, most important, accurate accounts of pioneer conditions in Upper Canada. Catharine Parr was born in London a...

Catharine Parr Traill has a greater importance in nineteenth-century Canadian letters than her work as a whole would seem to justify. Mistrusting fiction (which she felt satisfied the imagination while seducing the judgment) and feeling little aptitude f...

Background The first forests, in the Carboniferous Period, consisted of giant horsetails and club mosses. By the start of the Jurassic Period, conifers had appeared and during the Tertiary Period broadleaf trees with flowers were common. Today, the world's forests are...

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Long-term management plans for national forests will no longer go through a formal environmental impact statement, the U.S. Forest Service announced Tuesday.The Forest Service said writing the 15-year plans has no effect on the environment, making the impact statements unnecessary. That conclusion was based on...