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by swader999
1105 days ago
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They aren't going to die out. Forested land is increasing and has since the 50's. Source:
https://www.fao.org/3/X4995e/X4995e.htm
A snapshot of current conditions is as follows: After two centuries of decline, the area of US forestland stabilized in about 1920 and has since increased slightly. The forest area of the US is about two-thirds what it was in 1600.
The area consumed by wildfire each year has fallen 90 percent; it was between eight and twenty million hectares (20-50 million acres) in the early 1900s and is between one and two million hectares (2-5 million acres) today.
Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s. By 1997 forest growth exceeded harvest by 42 percent and the volume of forest growth was 380 percent greater than it had been in 1920. |
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