That's because its a map of current forestation levels (2023).
11 posts in and I'm still not sure what point the OP is trying to make.
If the point was to mock, there are better folders with way more visibility to do it in.
And the "mocking" was kind of weak.
No it is not dufus!
It's a map of conjectured forestation remaining from over 400 years ago, so-called "virgin forests" presented by another dufus with a political agenda, not a scientific or objective data/knowledge one.
It is showing "his" disinformation idea of what "he thinks" was present 400+ years ago versus what is there now, present, of trees living back then 400 years ago. Let that factor sink-in and digest!
It is a rare species and/or individual tree (type) that can live more than 100-200 years.
Nature tends to dish out the occasional wildfire every now and then that burns down an "old growth" forest of trees to re-start another carbon recycle phase. Which usually starts with deciduous tree types and other ground growth and brush before the 'evergreen' species get a foothold and eventually dominate. This all takes about one-two centuries to work out, depending upon numerous variables.
One classic example is the mix of human and nature caused major forest fire known as the Big Burn of 1910;
...
The
Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the
Big Blowup, the
Big Burn, or the
Devil's Broom fire) was a
wildfire in the
Inland Northwest region of the United States that in the summer of 1910 burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi; 12,100 km2, approximately the size of
Connecticut) in
North Idaho and
Western Montana, with extensions into
Eastern Washington and
Southeast British Columbia.
[1] The area burned included large parts of the
Bitterroot,
Cabinet,
Clearwater,
Coeur d'Alene,
Flathead,
Kaniksu,
Kootenai,
Lewis and Clark,
Lolo, and
St. Joe national forests.
[2]The fire burned over two days on the weekend of August 20–21,
[3][4] after strong winds caused numerous smaller fires to combine into a firestorm of unprecedented size. It killed 87 people,
[5] mostly firefighters,
[6][7] destroyed numerous manmade structures, including several entire towns, and burned more than three million acres of forest with an estimated billion dollars' worth of timber lost.
[2] It is believed to be the largest, although not the deadliest, forest fire in U.S. history.
[8]
In the aftermath of the fire, the
U.S. Forest Service received considerable recognition for its firefighting efforts, including a doubling of its budget from Congress. The outcome was to highlight firefighters as public heroes while raising public awareness of national nature conservation. The fire is often considered a significant impetus in the development of early wildfire prevention and suppression strategies.
[2]
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en.wikipedia.org
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Getting back to your distortion ~ disinformation ~ Lie; the map does NOT show current levels of forestation. Just the opposite since current forestation (tree growth and coverage) equals when not exceeds that of 200+ years ago.
I've lived here over 70+ years and in recent years have flown low level over this terrain and it remains difficult to see the building and development underneath the tree cover in mid-Summer when all is in leaf. While there may not be much left that was alive in 1620, mostly due to natural causes, there remains today as much if not more tree=vertical fauna as there was over 175+ years ago when "white people" first began to settle here.
I suggest you come out here and let me show around at ground level and a couple thousand feet over such and see how much of this land (over 80+%) remains FORESTED! = covered with trees!
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