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Note: This issue is no longer available for purchase. The
Truth About
America's Forests Spring 2003
The Truth About America's Forests - 8th Edition, last updated in 1994, remains the most popular issue of Evergreen Magazine ever published. Between 1990 and 1996, we printed and distributed over 700,000 copies. In the years since the issue went out of print, we received thousands of requests for copies, but we lacked the funding necessary to complete an update. Funding was finally realized and necessary new federal data quantifying regional growth, harvest and tree mortality on all timberland ownership classes became available and the project was completed. Among the topics
covered are historic land use patterns, historic and
current distribution of forests, reserved and unreserved forestlands,
reforestation, growth, harvest and tree mortality data by region, state
and owner class (state, federal tribal, industrial and non-industrial),
comparative economic impacts by region, wildfire and forest health,
sustainability and third-party certification, best management practices,
state and federal regulation; harvesting, wildlife habitat and biological
diversity, air and water quality recy
Special Note: Our first run of this issue contained an incorrect chart on page 10. The color code on U.S. Timber Growth & Removals 1920-1996 was reversed. This is the corrected chart. .
Note: In this latest issue's Introduction, we refer to articles and reports that are available on this web site. Follow the links below to these pieces. What's Your Environmental IQ? - compiled by Dr. James L. Bowyer to test students and industry employees on what they know about forests and forestry. Click here for the quiz. At the end of the quiz, there is another "click here" button - the answers follow. After you've checked your answers, click
here to go to Fact vs. Perception, by Dr. James L. Bowyer, Director, Forest Products
Management Development Institute, Department of Wood and Paper Science,
College of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota. Dr. Bowyer
wrote this piece a few years ago to explain why he gives this test to his
University of Minnesota students every year. Policy Conflicts Relative to Managing Fire-Adapted Forests on Federal Lands: The Case of the Northern Spotted Owl is co-authored by noted spotted owl researcher Dr. Larry Irwin and former Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas, and is the companion piece to “Uncharacteristic Wildfire Risk and Fish Conservation in Oregon,” by Dr. Thomas and Stephen Mealey, which begins on Page 41 in “The Truth About America’s Forests". Both of these articles underscore the fact that hundreds of thousands of acres of designated critical wildlife habitat are destroyed every year in catastrophic wildfires. The authors believe that many of these acres could be protected from fire if thinning were permitted in areas determined to be at moderate or high risk of catastrophic wildfire. Click here. Evergreen
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cling, the environmental advantages
of wood (the latest CORRIM update), plus a wide-ranging interview with Dr.
Patrick Moore.