Larry Caldwell wrote in message t...
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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.

That is hardly significant. It only amounts to about 80,000 acres, out
of many millions of acres of forest. Many of the highways are in areas
that were never forested in the first place, and never will be.

The vast majority of roads in the PNW were in timber or to timber (and
in many cases through timber). If you look are roads in Eastern Oregon
in say the Alvord Desert, there are few and seldom visited.

Road-building continues to increase. It does not remain stagnant, nor
do the road beds, in almost all instances, ever reforest.

Daniel B. Wheeler
www.oregonwhitetruffles.com