--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > 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 wonder whether we really use less wood now. We burn less (though I live in a neighborhood where a lot of people heat their homes with wood), but we use plenty for paper. > 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. I suspect you're right. Nothing wrong with even-age stands of one species, like the lodgepole pines in Wyoming that all germinated as a result of the same fire (one fire per forest, not one fire per Wyoming). I'm told tree farms are pretty unromantic, though. And lodgepole pines grow "thick as hairs on a dog's back", so there might be some inconveniences for LARPers. Jerry Friedman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com