Posted on 06/13/2005 11:21:06 AM PDT by Khepera
I saw a web site a year or so ago that showed forest cover in the United States in the 1700's and 1800's compaired to the forest cover today. It showed % of cover and had some interesting photographs. I have been looking to find this information again but I have had no luck.
Can anyone point me to this type of information?
Rush Limbaugh has covered this years ago. Check out his web site, maybe they can direct you to the info. more forrestation NOW BTW.
yes more forestation now is what I need to prove.
I'm sure some knowledgable FR whiz will come up with the info. I just can't remember where Rush got the Data, just that he did.
Oh my gosh, we're all gonna die....we're losing grassland like there's no tomorrow. Oh no....there may be no tomorrow! (/greenie)
SciAm is a source or you might contact a Lumber company like Weyerhauser or Lincoln Logs. Their public relations departments would provide the necessary info or links!
In the eraly 60s when I was in college, I remember many of my friends would get jobs planting trees where the lumber companies had clear cut the forest. Although the Environmental Quackers were against clear cutting it was shown to be the best way to reduce forest fires, save wildlife and increase lumber yields!
Most of the increase in forestation is the abandoning of marginal farm land as agricultural efficiency increased.
They're still not "old growth" forests though.
Scientists have observed this dynamic and recommended that logging companies clear cut so that the forest fire becomes unnecessay and the lumber is harvested instead of burned! That's called a Win Win!
The Society of American Foresters says.....
http://www.safnet.org/aboutforestry/facts.cfm
And http://www.forestinformation.com/home/ agrees.
Thanks. Fascinating data.
"They're still not "old growth" forests though."
They'll be "old growth" well before we're scorched by global warming or frozen to death by global cooling, or whatever the fad-du-jour apocalypse is these days. I can't keep up with the wildly gyrating propaganda.
Could we air lift our litigous enviornmentalists to plant trees in other parts of the world that need them?
An interesting book was published a few years ago showing exactly the same vistas recorded by photographers on Custer's 1875 trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota and the contemporary view, circa 2000. The difference in forestation is striking. One reason...100 years ago no one extiguished forest fires.
"Could we air lift our litigous enviornmentalists to plant trees in other parts of the world that need them?"
Now, that's an appealing thought. Better check with the indigenous peoples first, though. Wouldn't want to introduce modernity into any hunter-gatherer utopias.
I remember reading a long, extensive article in the Atlantic Monthly on this, but it was several years ago.
this helps
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