Slash and Sprawl: U.S. Eastern Forests Resume Decline
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Trees once covered almost the entire eastern seaboard of the U.S. Vast forests supported a rich ecosystem, including flocks of the extinct passenger pigeon big enough to blot out the sun. But by the 1920s at least half of this forest was gone--a victim of tree-clearing for farming, forestry or fossil-fuel extraction.