3.7 million hectares gone (our Eastern Forests) bad news

ensho

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Tue Apr-13-10 11:43 AM
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3.7 million hectares gone (our Eastern Forests) bad news

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/41210

US Eastern forests suffer "substantial" decline: 3.7 million hectares gone

The United States' Eastern forests have suffered a "substantial and sustained net loss" over the past few decades, according to a detailed study appearing in BioScience. From 1973 to 2000, Eastern have declined by 4.1 percent or 3.7 million hectares. Deforestation occurred in all Eastern regions, but the loss was most concentrated in the southeastern plains

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Forests are being lost largely to spreading suburbs and the timber industry. Mountaintop mining, a hot-button issue in the region, has also contributed significantly to forest loss: more than 420,000 hectares of forest (just over 10 percent of the total) have been lost in the Appalachian highlands due to the practice of blowing up mountain peaks for coal extraction. Recently a group of experts called on the Obama Administration to ban mountaintop removal due to environmental and human impacts.

Article continues: http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0407-hance_us_east.html
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the ticking of the clock is done - gone is gone

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Tue Apr-13-10 12:35 PM
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1. K&R

:cry:

-Hoot

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Triana

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Tue Apr-13-10 02:08 PM
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2. And our 'representatives' are doing what to stop this?

Nothing.

I mean we can write them letters, protest, and pay for ads all we want - but the gov't has the POWER to stop industry from destroying this planet. They are NOT doing it.

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ensho

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Wed Apr-14-10 10:43 AM
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4. true

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G_j

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Wed Apr-14-10 10:46 AM
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6. +1000

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Wed Apr-14-10 10:29 AM
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3. Full article free this month

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/aiob-euf033110.php
After noon EST on 7 April and for the remainder of the month, the full text of the article will be available for free download through the copy of this Press Release available at www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/.

Press release at http://www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/100407_eastern_us_forests_resume_decline.html
Full article PDF at http://www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/resources/Drummond_Loveland.pdf

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ensho

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Wed Apr-14-10 10:43 AM
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5. thanks for the links

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G_j

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Wed Apr-14-10 10:55 AM
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7. "sadly these things happen in the course of war"

oh wait, wrong stock answer.... but it'll work

:sarcasm:

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