Temperate Forests

Temperate forest have four distinct seasons, cold winters, cool rainy springs, hot moist summers, and cool falls. In some places the winters are very mild. The flora(trees & plants life) in these forest varies a little; they are made up of mostly hardwood like oak, hickory, beech, hemlock, maple, cottenwood, elm, willow, evergreens and basswood. During the winter all trees and plants lay dormant. They also contain many shrubs, moss, ferns and flowering herbs. Their fauna(animal life) deer, fox, black bears, bats, birds, reptiles, fish and insects, small rodents, etc... These are the forests we see most in the United States, they are also found in eastern Canada, Europe, China, Japan, small parts of South America and parts of Russia. There are many subdivisions under the temperate forests, they are moist and dry conifer/evergreen forest, temperate broad leave forest and the mediterranean temperate rain forest-they only differ in the climate. I will focus my attention on a particular temperate forest in southern Indiana known as the Indiana National Forest. It is the only forest I've ever went to and there is a lot of neat things to do there.