>On 12/2/95, Bret Diamond writes: > > On another issue, David South gave us some figures the other day >regarding how much federal land has been "protected from logging." I did >some checking on this, and our numbers are a little bit differant. >Wilderness Areas are the only public lands not available for logging >(until the next rider, anyway) and these wilderness areas make up only >3.9% of the total U.S. land area, and 3/4 of this is in Alaska. Yes I agree. Our numbers are different. I indicated there were 13.4 million hectares of US Forest Service Land designated at "official" Wilderness areas. Your figures indicate 35.7 million hectares of protected wilderness areas in the US. Thanks for pointing out that if we include national parks, the amount of public land "protected from logging" is more than twice the amount I indicated. David South School of Forestry Auburn University, AL 36849-5418 USA dsouth@forestry.auburn.edu 334-844-1022 334-844-1084 (FAX) http://www.forestry.auburn.edu/coops/sfnmc/sfnmc.html ========================================================================= "Here was my chance. Biltmore could be made to prove what America did not yet understand, that trees could be cut and the forest preserved at one and the same time." Gifford Pinchot Consulting Forester Biltmore Estate 1892-1895 =========================================================================
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