Ethiopia is the owner of various types of vegetations as a result of its divers physiographic nature. However, there is a great impact on the forest resource of Ethiopia today. Farta woreda is one of the degraded lands in Amhara region. Studies cannot give attention to create detection map for forest cover change in their study area. The objectives of this study were to prepare forest cover map of the study area, evaluate the changes of forest cover, to calculate the rate of deforestation, and to identify causes of deforestation in the study area. Data collection instruments of this study were satellite image acquisition, field observation and interview. Simple random sampling technique was employed to collect GPS points. Whereas purposive sampling was employed to decide which individuals should have included for interview. Forest areas are getting declined from time to time and inversely farming lands are getting expanded through time. The annual rate of deforestation between 1984-1989, 1995-2016 and 1984-2016 were 124.9 ha/year, 233.84 ha/year and 196.4 ha/year respectively. According to the results of change detection conversion matrix, large areas of forest areas were converted into farming lands and grazing lands. So, the expansion of farming land and others driving by population growth was the main causes of deforestation in the study area. Thus, possible remedies were recommended for the study area. Keywords: Forest; forest cover change; land use; land cover; land use land cover change;