Here's a statistic out of the March, l999 issue of Discovery Magazine.
As follows:

Fact: Fifty-two percent of our national forests are logged, mined, (not
mentioned grazed) and crisscrossed by more than 373,000 miles of roads,
enough to circle the earth 14 times. Just 18% of national forest land is
permanently protected as wilderness, and much of that because of thin
soil over rock where trees rarely grow.

Interesting, what?

To think I was a forestry major in college. Later switched to wildlife
management. I've made a lot of boneheaded decisions, but I got that one
right. However,either way I became a bureaucratic leech on the public
payroll. Sigh!

E. Kridler
Squirm, Wa.