From a historical perspective, how much forest do we have in the Eastern United

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From a historical perspective, how much forest do we have in the Eastern United States? (please explain choice)

a. Forest regeneration is strongly linked to rainfall in the eastern United States: high rainfall areas regrow quickly, while low rainfall areas only return to forest gradually.

b. After the initial cutting, most regions have had more-or-less stable amounts of forest over the last 100 years.

c. We now have more forest than we have had at any time in the last 150 years.

d. Northern forests (i.e. New England and New York) have regenerated after a low point in the nineteenth century, but Southern forests (i.e. Virginia southward) remain at a very low proportion of the landscape.

e. Forest cover continues to decline - we now have less forest than at any time since the last ice age

Explanation / Answer

A) false: Regeneration depends on afforestation than rainfall

B) False: check D

c) False

D) Forest cover in eastern united states reached its low point around 1872. Around 1890's Federal government bought eastern forest lands, in order to support regeneration in those areas. Around 1910, forest cover started increasing significantly. In the case of northern forest, it was a steady rise but south had a slow rise from 1910's to 1960's and after 60's it declined suddenly. But comparing both Northern and southern forests, until 1997 North had a total coverage of 75 million hectors and south had a coverage of 88 million hectors.

E) Is true because on a global scale itself, our forest cover is declining day by day due to a lot of factors like deforestation, climate change, etc

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