Will the Forest Be Saved

By James Madsen

The adventures of a hoot owl and her good friend and home, Terry the Tree, saving the forest trees and their friends that share the forest.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 1, 2003
• ISBN: 9781412253468

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Will The Forest 

 Be Saved

James Madsen

© Copyright 2003 James Madsen. All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Madsen, James, 1947-

Will the forest be saved? / James Madsen.

ISBN 1-55395-756-3

ISBN 978-1-4122-5346-8 (ebook)

1. Forest conservation—Juvenile fiction.

I. Title. PZ7.M332Wi 2003 j813’.6 C2003-900599-2

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Hanna the hoot owl was resting in the top branches of her friend, Terry the big green tree. She was feeling a little tired after the long moonlit night. It was a night filled with strange sights and sounds. There had been the faint sounds of engines running and a distant glow shinning over the big hill that separated the little green forest, she lived in with her friend and home Terry, from the nearest small town full of people. She remembered the little wisps of smoke that she had seen floating across the face of the huge moon as it hung low in the night sky. Very strange she had thought.

Her friends in the forest depended on her to always alert them when danger approached. They knew that she could see for miles from her perch high off the ground. Fuzzy the fox had stopped by Terry the tree last night, on his nightly stroll, and loudly asked her to fly over the big hill and see for herself. What could be going on, he had questioned? He was concerned, as his sensitive fox nose had detected strange smells on the nightly breeze.

She had replied that she had not fully recovered yet from that nasty landing that she had suffered last week. A sudden gust of wind had surprised her as she returned home.

The feathers at the tip of her left wing had been bent back as she crashed against the upper limbs of Terry. She had been afraid to wonder too far from home until she was fully recovered.

Hanna had hoped that her wing would have been better by now. She had only ventured off on short flights from her home high atop Terry the tree. However, she realized that someone had to journey to the far side of the big green hill to investigate. It was a far distance and she did not want to find herself falling from the sky on the far side of the big green hill. That was too near the small town where all the strange people lived.

She had seen those people come to the forest to hunt her friends in years past. The less that the forest creatures had to do with the people that lived over