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Disappearing Forests of the Southeast
Housing Sprawl in the Southeast - Our Vanishing Wild Places
Our window of opportunity to preserve much of what is left of our great Eastern Forests closes more with each new housing development in our forests. The interactive graphics below demonstrate the land that has been lost to housing sprawl and how much more will be lost if current practices fail to change.
We have a chance to preserve for future generations much of what is left of our great Eastern Forests—and there is a lot worth saving. But the time to do so narrows with each new housing development in our forests, so we must all work together now to save our most important lands. TWS is working to establish more Wilderness areas in the east; to increase federal and state funding to purchase priority lands or development rights from willing sellers; to prevent road building & commercial logging in Forest Service roadless areas; and to create a broad understanding of how protecting forests helps to combat climate change.
* The data for these maps were produced by R.B. Hammer and V.C. Radeloff at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with funding from the USDA Forest Service North Central Research Station.
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Discovering our Environment
I am an architecture student at Texas A&M, and in my studio we started researching the land on which the new Target is going to be built in Bryan, Tx. We also looked at the process of how it was being built and what they were doing to preserve the land around them and give back to the area, seeing as how they are using a retention pond that is located on land that was once nature trails used by families, boy scouts, and other people who visit the museum of natural history right next door. We were not sure what our research would lead us to or if we would actually find any dirt on the big, bad developers, but we have really learned a lot more than we would have expected. This is a great blog that shows all of our research and what we are trying to do with this retention pond and notifying the public.
It would be great to know what you think about this! Leave comments on here or on our blog which is linked above if you want!
We are working on a video so stay tuned! I am an architecture student at Texas A&M, and in my studio we started researching the land on which the new Target is going to be... more
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