OK, here comes the voice of ignorance.
Whereas the number of forests might have increased, surely the acreage
of forests has decreased. In the 1800's and 1900's in America, the
population increased dramatically in America. Today there are many
urban and suburban communities where none existed before, the dwellings
are largely built of lumber, and on the two coasts this expansion came
at the expense of forests. In my neighborhood in the suburbs I see
animals roaming city streets that once were confined to forested land --
deer, fox, and exotic animals.
I don't know what percentage of forests have been lost, but I would like
to know if global warming (now considered a certainty by most
environmental scientists) will cut the acreage of trees further. The
kinds of trees that grow in a given area must surely change. Maybe the
temperate hemispheres will become like rain forests, or maybe they will
become dry so that cacti will flourish -- I don't know since I am ignorant.
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
The US has more forests now than it did in the early 1900's. The
greatest loss of forest land at present is occurring in the Brazilian
rain forest due to both planed deforestation and poaching of lumber.
(I have a charted forester in my congregation.)
Stewart
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