On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Gomi no Sensei wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Jerry Friedman wrote: > > > Hm. I'd expect we have forests that are bigger than Sweden, but > > maybe only in Alaska. Or has deforestation gone farther than I > > think? > > Not in the least. There is greater forested area in the United States today > than there was for most of the nineteenth century. > > pe > something about not using wood so much any more I thought this had something to do with the rise of tree farms. If I'm right, these would be monoculture "forests" of identical-age trees, so not quite what Larpers might have in mind.