{"id":2722,"date":"2010-04-28T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/south-losing-trees.html"},"modified":"2010-04-28T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:39:00","slug":"south-losing-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/south-losing-trees.html","title":{"rendered":"South Losing Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/environment\/2010-04-27-forests27_ST_N.htm\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\" width=\"297\" height=\"172\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/i.usatoday.net\/life\/graphics\/2010\/0427-deforestation\/deforestation.jpg\"><\/a>\nDoyle Rice writes in USA Today about\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/environment\/2010-04-27-forests27_ST_N.htm\">U.S. losing trees faster than other heavily forested nations<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nOut of seven of the most heavily forested nations on Earth, the United States experienced a greater percentage of forest loss from 2000 to 2005 than did any of the other countries, a study said Monday.\n<\/blockquote>\nBut what part of the U.S.?\n<blockquote>\nThe one part of the contiguous USA that experienced the most forest loss was the Southeast, a large chunk of which lost more than 10% of its forest cover from 2000 to 2005, the year for which the most recent data were available.\n<\/blockquote>\nCompared to what?\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nWorldwide, researchers determined that the globe lost forest cover of nearly 400,000 square miles \u2014 roughly 3% of the world&#8217;s forested areas \u2014 during the first half of the last decade. The other countries in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2010\/04\/07\/0912668107\">\nthe study<\/a> were Canada, Russia, China, Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s right: the U.S. lost more trees percentagewise than the Congo in Central Africa; more than the Amazon in Brazil,\nand the U.S. southeast lost the most.\n<p>\nAnd why?\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;We do not quantify what the causes are, and we do not quantify how much forest gain there was from 2000 to 2005,&#8221; [Matthew] Hansen [of South Dakota State University] says. &#8220;But clearly, industrial harvesting\/clearing is very important.&#8221;\n<p>\nMan-made causes of forest loss include logging and wildfires caused by people. Natural causes would include natural wildfires and storm damage.\n<\/blockquote>\nNot to mention the most obvious: clearing for development.\n<p>\nDo we want to add to that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/04\/biomass-plant-hearing-today.html\">\nclearcutting for dubious biomass plants?<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doyle Rice writes in USA Today about U.S. losing trees faster than other heavily forested nations: Out of seven of the most heavily forested nations on Earth, the United States experienced a greater percentage of forest loss from 2000 to 2005 than did any of the other countries, a study said Monday. 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