DSK wrote:
Scooby Doo wrote:

There's also more forestland in the US than there was in 1900.

Malarkey. I guess back in 1900 they were paving thousands of acres per
day for shopping mall parking lots & roads.

There might be more acres with trees but monoculture tree farms are not
equivalent to healthy forests in providing diverse habitat.

Download google earth at http://earth.google.com/ and have a look at the
clear cuts.

-rick-