Its a scary thing to think of the last tree falling. Folks in Haiti have already seen that, and the country is devastated (in many ways, but they have no trees).

Our fore-fathers didn’t think that America could ever run out of trees, until after clear-cutting so many of our forests, we suffered through the dust bowl, erosion of the Great Smokey Mtns, and other mountains, and so much that the future of trees looked bleak for a time. Finally with the US Forest service in place, logging was regulated and the forests grew back.

When the dust starts plowing through the mid-west and the mountains begin to erode again, maybe we’ll get back to some real conservation again. If it isn’t too late.