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New Map Reveals Size of U.S. Forests

Posted April 25, 2011 8:21 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

Having trouble seeing the forest for the trees? A newly released United States map might be able to help. The map, created by Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) scientists, is the most precise representation yet of the height and coverage of U.S. forests and woodlands. The data will provide a baseline for understanding both forest resources and carbon flux, study leader Josef Kellndorfer of WHRC said in a statement.

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04/25/2011 1:14 PM

An actual link to the map would have been nice. So here:

http://www.whrc.org/mapping/nbcd/index.html

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04/26/2011 8:45 AM

Thanks for the link. There is actually suprisingly less than I would have thought.
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04/28/2011 2:27 PM

Yes. I've been saying for a long time... the Europeans really goofed. Once they knew about this continent they should have all agreed to leave it alone as a great vacation spot and let the Native Americans be the caretakers. Of course, since China had beaten them to it (albeit, the West Coast), and there was no communication between them -- at least that we know of -- China might have gotten embedded in the real estate of this country much earlier and more directly.
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04/29/2011 5:21 AM

Thanks for that - first thing I thought was; "So where's the map?"

Second thing was; "so where is the map before that?"

Is there an appreciable difference?

Or is this just "oh look, we have made a map from satellite images"?

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05/01/2011 9:14 PM

cynic? or just good at stating the obvious

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