Where the wood is

[Dalmatian90]

From NASA -- Woody Biomass, darker color the more tons per acre:

My biggest "Cool" is I've never seen something called the "Great Appalachian Valley" so clearly on a map before -- that's the narrow strip of cleared land that comes down Lake Champlain & Hudson River, cuts across New Jersey, goes through Lancaster County, down into the Shenandoah, and keeps on trucking down into Tennessee.

And looking at New England, I understand better why (in addition to subsidies, etc) why folks keep proposing wood-burning electric plants here...it's where the wood is.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Bear in mind that much of the dark that you see in the mountainous parts of Virginia and North Carolina is owned by the federal government.

 

[luneburg]

Thanks

Quite interesting indeed, thanks for the post Dal

 

[darkbyrd]

Bear in mind that much of the dark that you see in the mountainous parts of Virginia and North Carolina is owned by the federal government.

I feel privileged to be living in some of that dark green.

 

[cheeves]

I feel privileged to be living in some of that dark green.

I can see why now the chainsaw has been my favorite tool for so long!

 

[russhd1997]

I feel privileged to be living in some of that dark green.

Me too!

I can see why now the chainsaw has been my favorite tool for so long!

Mine too!:chainsawguy:

 

[AIM]

What are the squiggly lines indicating?

 

[REJ2]

Dang, cant find a single tree in Kansas!

 

[slowp]

Mt St Helens shows up well--better than Mt. Rainier.

 

[zogger]

What are the squiggly lines indicating?

--ya, what are those for? Those aren't all rivers, although some seem to parallel some river areas.

 

[One Shot Will]

not so much as a green dot where i live

 

[Locust Cutter]

Dang, cant find a single tree in Kansas!

LMAO,... They're all hiding in Butler and Greenwood Counties! That's where I go to get 'em anyway,...

 

[darkbyrd]

--ya, what are those for? Those aren't all rivers, although some seem to parallel some river areas.

Dunno, but I'm thinking it's some kind of administrative district.

 

[Dalmatian90]

What are the squiggly lines indicating?

Watersheds is my guess.

 

[4seasons]

just curious

What are the lines drawn on the map? They certainly aren't state lines or time zones. What could those divisions in grey lines be?

 

[darkbyrd]

Watersheds is my guess.

Respectfully, I disagree. I look at my state of north carolina, and there is one of those lines running north-south, across several river basins. But it does roughly correspond with the "fall line," where the piedmont drops off to the coastal plain. So maybe it's a geological line, not an administrative line. I'm still very curious as to what it might be.

 

[myzamboni]

They divided the country into 66 mapping zones and ended up mapping 265 million segments of the American land surface