Hello all,

I've been looking for the total number of either acres or miles of unbroken forest in the U.S. and Canada. I've been to the USDA Forest Service website and have found everything but the total number of miles. I know there has to be someone on this forum with this info or at the very least where I might find it?

Also looking for just the total number of either acres or miles of forest (unbroken or not) in the U.S. and Canada.

Thanks ahead of time for anyone responding!

Cheers

Well, to get an idea, go to Google Maps and select the satellite button on the right.

http://maps.google.com/

Type in the "Search Maps" window,

Prince Albert, SK

and press enter.

Slowly scan northward, everything that is green (except lakes and rivers) is unbroken forest, usually growing in swampy shallow soil under which is permafrost. The trees are not really big and thick, but it is very difficult to get through in certain times of the year when it is wet. The winter lasts from October to May. In the summer the mosquitoes and mud keeps a lot of people out. Perfect sasquatch habitat!

exactly!

i did find out that there are close to 5.7 million square miles of the boreal forest and 747 million acres of forest in the united states

thanks for the reply vilnoori!

cheers

There's literally thousands of kilometres of unbroken forest from Alaska to California. There are large pockets of dense forests throughout North America. Don't know the exact number but definitely millions of acres.

Good enough for certain even a few thousand acres would be good so yeah...

Hi SS-

Not sure what your definition of "unbroken" is, but I'll assume you mean "roadless". I don't know what
the statistics are for Alaska or Canada, but in the Lower 48:

-The longest stretch of roadless terrain runs for 150 miles, from the central Sierras to the southern Sierras
in California.

-The biggest chunk of roadless terrain acreage-wise is about 3 million acres, in east-central Idaho.

windigeo,
thanks for the reply! i was wondering if you might have a source for the above? i kinda need to verify and also would like to find more of the same type of info! thanks!

cheers

The data can be found in a couple of books:

The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Outside-Descript...4504&sr=1-1

America's Wilderness
http://www.amazon.com/Foghorn-Outdoors-Wil...851&sr=1-19

It's also verifiable in a geographic information system (GIS) using free public data from the National Atlas (nationalatlas.gov).

windigeo,

wow, thanks again!

cheers