[at-l] Sustainable Forestry

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The claim was that 38 percent of America is wilderness. Federal ownership doesn't equal wilderness. Even most designated wilderness areas aren't really wilderness, but if we left them alone they might grow into wilderness.

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> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "J Bryan Kramer" <jbryankramer@msn.com>
> To: "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>, camojack@comcast.net, at-l@backcountry.net
> Date: Fri, Jul-16-2004 9:20 PM
> Subject: RE: [at-l] Sustainable Forestry
> 
> Well considering that some large western states are mostly public 
> lands:
> National Forests, Park and BLM land I think that 4.7% figure is way too 
> low.
> Ah yes here:
> 
> "Almost one-third of total U.S. land acreage is administered by the 
> federal
> government with the largest acreage found in the thirteen western 
> states 1.
> In 1999, approximately 92.3 percent of federally managed land acreage 
> was
> located in the thirteen western states. Contrasting this figure with 
> their
> proportionate share of national acreage, which is 49 percent, shows the
> importance that public land management decisions have on the economies 
> and
> local government fiscal balances of these western states.
> 
> The U.S. Department of Interior (2001) reports that the proportionate 
> share
> of federal lands to total acreage in the thirteen western states varies 
> from
> 15.1 percent in Hawaii to 82.9 percent in Nevada. For the eleven 
> contiguous
> western states, approximately 47 percent of total acreage is federally
> administered. Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah have over 50 
> percent of
> their land mass federally administered. It should also be noted that 
> these
> western states have state lands that expand the acreage that can be
> classified as public."
> 
> http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/FS01/FS0132.pdf
> 
> so his figure seems to be correct
> 
> 
> Bryan
> 
>