highcountrynews: This Map Shows Where All The Trees Are In The US NASA’s Earth Observatory just released a map illustrating where all the trees are in America. The map was created over six years by Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey. The dark swaths of green represent parts of the country with the greatest concentration of biomass. You can see dense tree cover in the Pacific Northwest as well New England, which has been reforested after intensive logging in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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This Map Shows Where All The Trees Are In The US

NASA’s Earth Observatory just released a map illustrating where all the trees are in America. The map was created over six years by Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey. The dark swaths of green represent parts of the country with the greatest concentration of biomass. You can see dense tree cover in the Pacific Northwest as well New England, which has been reforested after intensive logging in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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    Now I really understand why Kelly, former roomie from CO, would always comment on how many trees we have here in New...
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    I think I am going to start carrying this with me. Every time someone looks at me like I am insane and asks “Why would...
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    NEED MORE TREES!
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    icu Maine. also yay for our mountain forest on the left hand side
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    The central US is the Grate Plains, the climate isn’t good for growing many trees. There are some but they’re sparse,...
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    Man, I could look at this map allllllll day long. Delightful, delightful. So much to seeeeeeeeeeee! (But I wish they had...

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