At 04:38 PM 8/11/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Thanks to those of you who have responded to my query about tree planting
>statistics. It has been an interesting rorschach test to read the bits of
>encouragement or caution that you have included with your recommendations -
>but I don't want to digress!
>
>The most recent copy that I have of "Tree Planting in the US" by the USFS
>notes that the data "does not include tree planting in urban and community
>environments." In another USFS document ("Urban and community forestry
>program accomplishments for FY 1995") Rita Schoeneman says that there are
>more than 69 million acres of urban forests in the United States (no
>definition of urban forests here, but nevermind!) Do we have stats for
>trees planted in these acres, without having to crawl from program to
>program and group to group? (I'll take those micro-statistics too, if you
>have them....)
>
No. To my knowledge, we do not have stats for trees planted in urban and
community environments.
Not for numbers of trees, not for acres of trees, not by state, and not over
time.
David South
School of Forestry
Auburn University, AL 36849-5418
A member of the Forester's Chapter for ZPG
dsouth@forestry.auburn.edu
334-844-1022
334-844-1084 (FAX)
As always, views expressed here are my own
(and I am not speaking on the behalf of others).
I use only 100% post-consumer paper in my home printer.
(discarded used office paper printed on one side)
http://www.forestry.auburn.edu/coops/sfnmc/sfnmc.html
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The world population is expected to double by the year 2100.
Therefore the annual demand for wood for energy (etc.)
will increase and might double (to more than 7 billion m3/yr).
To provide plantation wood for people in the future,
support the planting of trees on pastureland.
Set a goal of converting 8 million ha of pastureland/yr for the next 55 years.
This would increase tree plantations to about 5% of the world's landbase.
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