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JUNGLE FACTS • Why is the jungle so diverse? 30 million years ago, the area that is now the Amazon jungle entered a long dry period. The tropical rain forests growing there at the time were wiped out, and only isolated pockets of jungle surrounded by vast grasslands remained. Each pocket of jungle followed its own evolutionary course over thousands of years. • When the climate once again became warm and wet following the last ice age 10,000 years ago, the different types of jungle grew together again, with each forest contributing many different species of plant and animal. • As a result, the South American forests are the most diverse in the world. Whereas many temperate forests are composed largely of just a few species of tree, in the Amazon you may have to travel a mile or more to find two trees of the same species. • In any North American forest it is rare to find more than 15 species of tree in the entire ecosytem. In the Amazon, a five-acre plot may contain between 100 and 250 different species. (Continued next page)
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RAINFOREST (continued) • In the northern deciduous forests of the temperate climates, every tree drops its leaves at the same time, triggered by the change of seasons. Thus, each year the forest floor receives a huge boon of nutritious new dead material all at one time. This stuff gradually turns into rich soil. • But in the tropical rainforest, no change of season occurs so no massive leaf drop ever happens. Tropical trees drop their leaves gradually over the entire year. The unending heat and moisture of the climate spur the growth of bacteria, insects, and fungi, which consume the material and cause it to decompose quickly, converting it into nutrient building blocks. • The process of decomposition which takes between one and seven years in North American forests (depending on climate) takes only six weeks in the Amazon. Nutrients are immediately used again by the many growing plants. The deep rich soil that accumulates in temperate forests never has a chance to collect in the Amazon. The forest floor in the Amazon is like a huge living stomach. UNENDING RAIN • In temperate forests, it usually rains only sporadically, but in the Amazon, it rains daily. Millions of years of daily rainfall combined with constant heat leached the nutrients from the soil, leaving it high in aluminum and iron oxides which are responsible for the soil’s characteristic red color. The soil is highly acidic and unable to support much plant life. Without the constant fall of dead material from above, the dirt is worthless. • So the ecosystem of the rainforest is upside-down in comparison to other forests: the nutrients are stored not in the soil, but in the living canopy. When the forest is cut and burned, the only nutrients left are in the ashes.
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RAINFOREST (cont’d) • After the trees are cut down in a tropical rainforest, nutrients in the soil disappear after only a few harvests of crops, and the soil is soon lost entirely to erosion, never to be replaced. Once the forest is cleared, it is extraordinarily difficult to reverse the damage. THE DESTRUCTION • A forested landscape acts as a living reservoir by trapping rainfall and releasing it slowly. In the dense jungle, the canopy is so heavy that the water from a driving rainstorm may take 10 minutes to reach the ground. Rain is caught by leaves and trapped in hollows where it evaporates gradually. It’s sucked up by roots and it soaks into soil that acts like a sponge. Rain feeds underground springs. • But when the land is cleared, rainfall is no longer absorbed. There are no leaves and branches to protect the ground from the pounding rain. Water runs off immediately, taking the soil with it. Exposed to the sun, the ground becomes an unproductive hard-packed cement. The small amounts of nutrients in the soil are quickly leached away. • A 2.5 acre tract of healthy growing rainforest will lose an average of three pounds (1.3 kg) of soil through erosion annually. Cut the forest, however, and the same area can lose up to 34 tons of dirt in a year. • Half of the rain that falls comes from water evaporating from the forest below. With no forest, the land dries quickly and offers no moisture to be turned into more rain. When the forest is gone, the rain is gone too. Drought, erosion, and flooding result. • It’s been estimated that the Amazon produces half of all the oxygen generated by land plants on Earth. Without the climate-moderating effects of the forest, temperatures would rise. Rainfall would plummet. Loss of the Amazon could
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Apple roses have been in bloom all over Pinterest and cooking sites. The techniques creatively transform apples, puff pastry, spices and preserves into a whimsical roseshaped dessert. I’ve come up with a fun step-by-step version that you and your kids can use to make six roses together. A highlight during the prep is sharing the moment of surprise when you roll up the lined apple slices on a strip of dough and transform it into a rose shape. “Wow, look at this!” your kids might exclaim, as they set it in the muffin tin. “It really looks like a rose!” APPLE ROSE DESSERT 1 frozen puff pastry sheet, thawed and cold, such as Pepperidge Farm brand 2 medium apples with reddish skin 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon apricot or peach preserves, mixed with 1 teaspoon water Cinnamon and sugar (optional) Powdered sugar 1. Heat oven to 375 F. 2. Grease a six-cup muffin pan. (Or, for easier removal of roses, grease sides and cut parchment paper to fit the bases of the pan.) 3. Slice apples in half from top to bottom. Core. Place halves cut side down on cutting board sideways, in front of you. Slice each apple half thinly to make about 15 equal length slices resembling a half moon shape. 4. Toss slices in a bowl of lemon juice mixed with 1/4 cup water. Microwave for 2 1/2 minutes until pliable but not too soft. If you don’t have a microwave, add water and simmer briefly in a pan. Remove apples and pat dry. 5. On a lightly floured board, roll out one puff pastry to form a 10-by-12-inch rectangle. Let your child measure with a ruler and cut six 10-by-2-inch strips with a pizza cutter. Use a pastry brush to spread a thin layer of the jam mixture on the upper half of each pastry strip. 6. To form each rose, arrange about 10 apple slices across the top half of the pastry strip, overlapping them as you go. The top rounded edge with skin should extend about a 1/4 inch above the dough. Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon and sugar, if you wish. 7. Gently lift the bottom half of the dough over the top. Roll up the strip, keeping apple slices tucked in; pinch the edge into the dough, and set in a muffin cup. 8. Bake for 45 minutes. Cool on wire rack and serve warm or at room temperature. Set roses on small plates and dust with powdered sugar. For an extra treat, serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream drizzled with caramel sauce. TIP: This recipe works equally well with firm pears. Cut the slices from the plump portion of the fruit. Instead of apricot jam, you might try fig spread. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2016 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs’ proposed budget for 2017 is $182 billion. That’s roughly broken down as follows: $78 billion for discretionary spending, of which $68 billion is for health care, and $103 billion for benefits such as compensation and pensions. Somewhere in the $182 billion budget is $12 billion for care in the community, $1 billion for telehealth, $515 million for women’s health care, $836 million for new health-care facilities and $900 million for new cemeteries. The budget includes $54 million for 300
employees for claims processing. (That comes to $180,000 per employee.) And because it can take upward of five years for an appeal to reach completion, VA officials are requesting $156 million for 922 full-time employees. (That’s $169,000 per employee.) Also buried in there is $180 million for the electronic claims processing system and $143 million for VCIP, the program that converts medical records to digital images. It also requires $4.3 billion for cybersecurity and info technology. Although the numbers of homeless have come down, officials are asking for $1.6 billion for programs. The Choice Act, giving veterans fast access to care in the civilian community, needs $5 billion for in-house staff and $10 billion for a
temporary Choice program. (Which is confusing because Choice is a done deal, not temporary.) In another place, the budget explains that they’ll need $1.4 billion and $853 million to hire 9,700 medical staff for Choice. In yet another place it mentions taking $969 million from the 2014 Choice Act. Confused yet? If you’ve run these numbers as you’ve read down the column, you’ll see that they don’t really add up. And if you want to take a sharp look at the details, go online to www.va.gov/ budget and look for the FY2017 budget request. Then look at the official press release at www. va.gov (search for news release 2746) and compare the numbers. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
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