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If you are interested in US statistics, spend some quality time with:


For a world wide perspective, explore the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations. You can generate your own tables
from thier database:

http://apps.fao.org/


LOL, sorry, "you're" the one who has fallen for the depletion crisis.
To rationally decide there is a "depletion" problem, one must have
mathematically determined so, to not mathematically produce this
evidence means you've just listened to someones end of the world
scenario, and bought into it irrationally.

A more detailed analysis translates as "more unactionable information,
for which the provider of such information benefits finacially", sorry
son, but i pay for goods and sevices that i consider worthy of my
expenditure.



FAO is ONE source of information. Their data indicate significant
conversion of forest and woodlands over the last 30 years. That is a lot
of hectares and a strong indicator of a global problem. The FIA analysis
indicates a general loss of forest and woodland acerage in most regions
of the US mostly due to conversion to other agricultural uses and
development for housing. In my experience there is precious little
aforestation - I rarely see housing developments, pastures, or vineyards
revert to forest.
Another significant source of forest depletion is seldom considered,
but profound: highways. The state of Oregon by itself has enough
highways and logging roads to go around the world 3 times. USFS is
closing off many of these roads, and given time, it is possible that
at least some will be reclaimed as forest lands. But worldwide, the
opposite is true.

BTW, the original post does not address the facts described by J.
Russell Smith in the 1930's. Smith stated, in part that forestry as
currently practiced (then) in the United States (and many other
countries as well) is "First the saw, then the plow, then move on when
the soil is gone."

Daniel B. Wheeler
www.oregonwhitetruffles.com