On 12/5/95, David South writes: > >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. Our numbers are still different, my calculations show that 37.2 million acres are in wilderness areas and national parks. The point you did not address, of course, is that this is only 3.8% of the total land area of the U.S, and that in the lower 48 states, only 1.3% of the total land area is actually protected. Think we can "get by" by utilizing the other 96% for resource extraction? Bret Diamond Oregon, USA diam9018@tao.sosc.osshe.edu
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