Out of 3,794,000 square miles... I would suspect that the sustained numbers are a result of the creation of national parks in the early 1900's...
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:21 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Lock ups yer children them libruls are going to indoctrinate 'em Ooops. More forest now than in 1920? http://columbiaforestproducts.com/Landowners/Forests Unlike some regions in the world where deforestation is happening at a rapid pace, the US has actually maintained its forestland for the past 100 years. According to the USDA Forest Service, since 1900, forest area in the US has remained statistically within 745 million acres +/-5% with the lowest point in 1920 of 735 million acres. US forest area in 2000 was about 749 million acres. . On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Then she says the US has less than 4% of our countries original forest. > Okay. Maybe only 4% of the tree present during the settling of the > country are left (which is doubtful). However, forest are replanted > when logged. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361588 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
