03-08-2002, 01:43 PM
'at the end of the eighteenth century--roughly 930 million acres. (Encyclopedia of American Forests and Conservation History) Today, there are only 737 million acres of forest land, much of which lacks the the ecological diversity of the original old-growth forest. (American Forests)'
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=more+forest+now+than+columbus+rush+limbau gh&hl=en&selm=APC%261%270%27586df17e%270ee%40igc.apc.org&rnum=1
just searched on google, that whole thing above is the url. i think this is a fact that probably everyone can accept. but one side will say, well, no big deal, almost all of our forests are still here, and the other side will say, my god!, almost all the diversity is gone and we just have tree farms. well, take your pick.
brad
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=more+forest+now+than+columbus+rush+limbau gh&hl=en&selm=APC%261%270%27586df17e%270ee%40igc.apc.org&rnum=1
just searched on google, that whole thing above is the url. i think this is a fact that probably everyone can accept. but one side will say, well, no big deal, almost all of our forests are still here, and the other side will say, my god!, almost all the diversity is gone and we just have tree farms. well, take your pick.
brad