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Originally Posted by NatCh
Last I checked, satellite imagery indicated that there was more rain forest than there used to be (it grows so fast, you see, that it's hard to keep it cleared, and it makes lousy farm land in the first place). Certainly, the northeast section of the U.S. has returned a lot of previous farmland to wooded area.  |
You're totally not kidding about the rapid rate of growth! When I lived in Ecuador for a few months, they were having to continually upkeep the areas they they were working to keep them from being overgrown. I remember reading somewhere about bamboo growing so fast that it actually pierced tires and grew up around some vehicles that were parked too long during WWII! Not sure if they can make paper out of bamboo though...