What do YOU think about urban deforestation?

Question

Consider areas that have many trees (ex. Northeast/Midwest)

With the urban tree removal on the rise (and with people saying..."hmm, I will get those trees taken out soon")

Do you think that in say...100 - 200 years, Northeast will start looking more like LA area or some other - deforested area?

People FROM LA - YEA I AGREE there are trees there, but you can't even put it close to Northeast, it's probably 10% of what it is here.

Answer 1

Have you ever been out of LA?

Answer 2

Being a nature photographer and growing up in the country; I hate what's happening on nearly all urban and suburban (even rural) lands!! Deforestation is only reasonable ok; if through selective cutting and replanting of new trees; yet we as a human race are not replenishing the planet of what we are removing. I did research in college to what deforestation is doing to native streams, rivers, and water supplies within my home area; and the results were frightening!! Consider that if we continue as a population to deforest all trees in town and such...EVERYTHING will change: drinkable water supplies, health/diseases, climate/weather, mass extinctions, and the list goes on... Remember there are animals, insects and plants living within that watershed(stand of trees and streams in any given area); and if there are NO trees(or very little)....what of the wildlife? where are they to go??
Just look at what's happening in the scientific world and getting past around in Gov't nowadays: Global Warming! It's not a new and unknown fact.... So for your question wondering about 100-200 years from now; Northeast and or anywhere you turn will (if not already) end up looking like LA!! Massive Deforestation in order to create homes, massive shopping centers/malls, miles and miles of road systems, will lead to worse than imaginable for the not so distant future; much less 100-200 years!

Your question was pertaining to urban areas within the US, right?! Think of the planet globally; deforestation of tropical forest due to population rising and want for all mighty dollar.

Answer 3

Deforestation is definitely a bad thing. Oddly enough, Los Angeles has a Forestry Program. The Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department estimates that there are at least one MILLION trees growing in the City's 15,000 acres of parkland, spread amongst developed urban parks and growing naturally in coastal and inland areas. This "Urban Forest" is a great asset to the City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles would be much worse without the trees. There are very few streets in L.A. which do not have trees on them.

Answer 4

Trees are important in urban areas but they can be big problems too. They fall down when they get too old so its a good idea to maintain a youthful forest in cities. LA is not all that bad and your city can be beautiful as long as its cared for. Its a lot of work.

Answer 5

I think its horrible and the cause or at least one of the factors of global warming, and it will add to the pollution making it worse for people with respiratory problems, such as asthma pneumonia or just plain shortness of breath. And yes in 100/ 200 years it probably will look like a deforested area because it will be deforested.

Answer 6

Between pavement and buildings, densely urban areas are so heavily human-influenced that trees or the lack of them has primarily aesthetic effects. The ecological questions come from what we do with the rest of the land area to support those dense cities.

Answer 7

Each tree produces a finite amount of oxygen. It totally depends on the size of the tree and the amount of leaves it has. If you take that tree out of production by cutting it down, what is going to take its place. At some point we pass a break even line where we don't produce as much oxygen as we use up. Guess what starts to happen then. I don't want to be there, do you?

Answer 8

Yes,holy **** yes

I live out in the middle of farm lands,pine tree farms.
And at the moment you can go down the road and see a football field of empty land and in the a huge fire,piled with the trees burning.
So depressing because the town where i live,such beautiful country side,and everything is being torn down and neighbors and being built,and tourism is growing....

I am going to get out of this place before my nightmare comes true.

And i live in Alabama,and this is happening everywhere.

Answer 9

In areas it will, but there is more forest land then there was 100 years ago in the US. It's false to say otherwise and a myth disproven.

Answer 10

In a nutshell:

I think it sucks big hairy goat balls. I wish the developers in my area would suck some big hairy goat balls. If I had some big hairy goat balls, I would send them to the developers in my area, so that they could suck them.

In detail:

Right now our city is fighting to stop developers from building 738 "units" in the biggest forest in our city limits. They want to chop down the forest and build condos...CONDOS!

Please do all you can to fight destructive growth. Growth is inevitable, but it can be done in a more ecological manner if we wanted to.

If someone in your area does something destructive to the environment: logging, developing, polluting - make sure you post their name and address and telephone number all over town, and try to have it published if possible. Environmental criminals need to be held socially responsible for their actions.

Answer 11

well since we have 3 times MORE trees here NOW in north america than we did in 1920, I'd say no.