It was 2% ten years ago last time I heard David Brower speak, Martyn.
USFS estimates that about a quarter of that has been lost to fire and
logging in the past decade.
Brower's comment: "The US represents 5% of the world's population.
And we consume 60% of the world's resources. 5% of us consume 90% of
that amount."
When I began recording in 1968, fully 45% of our old growth forests
still remained. Now the estimate is 1.75% in all of N. America.
Bernie
>Remember too that we can all help regardless of where you live. In the USA
>out of all the original old growth forests only 2% remains and out of this
>merely 2% is protected!!!
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>Martyn
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:
> On Behalf Of Volker Widmann
>Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:00 AM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Another RFID
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>Hi John,
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>I've never been to Oregon, but even on the sattelite pictures you get
>from GoogleEarth you can clearly see a depressing mosaic of clearcuts in
>Wallowa National "Forest". It really is a shame!!!!!!
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>I've seen it with my own eyes in the northern Californian redwood
>forests where the state one the hand pays hundreds of millions of
>dollars to buy old growth stands from lumber companies and where on the
>other hand the pathetic remaining forests are clearcut without mercy in
>the most ruinous way to press the most money out of them. The
>consequence is erosion, landslides, salmon habitat loss and
>unemployment. And the profit goes somewhere totally else. This is not
>ethical, rather criminal.
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>And 150 years ago the American West was a pristine wilderness!!!
>What have we done???
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>Volker
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>P.S.: I have to add that to me it is still awesome to me what there is
>left. There is nothing coming even faintly close here in Europe to what
>you still have in the States, but this is not an excuse.
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>John Hartog schrieb:
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>> Hi Lou,
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>> They call the National Parks what they are - parks. Might as well
>> name the "Forests" what they really are...
>> I do not mean to single out Oregon - it's the same everywhere.
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>> John Hartog
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>> > They have renamed the forests as "Clearcuts?" How sad... Oregon is a
>> > depressing drive...
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>> > Sorry for OT.
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