World Forest Map Before And After. The Camp Fire in Californias Butte County became the states deadliest and most destructive wildfire last year. It left 85 people dead and destroyed almost 14000 homes.
The first clearings that appear in the forest are in a fishbone pattern arrayed along the edges of roads. All the tree species we know today were present before the first Americans arrived but their distribution across forest habitats was likely altered by the loss of so many large herbivores and seed dispersers. These photos show second-growth forest treatments in the Greater Mill Creek Watershed Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park.
Latin America and the Caribbean which have the worlds second largest share of forests after Europe and Central Asia with about one quarter of the worlds total has lost some 970000 sq km or 10 of its forest area since 1990.
The trans-boundary haze events are associated with large forest and peatland fires in Indonesia. Over time the fishbones collapse into a mixture of forest remnants cleared areas and settlements. Red shows forest loss in 2000-2012 blue shows forest gain in the same period and pink shows both a loss and a gain in the area The maps also illustrate the impact of politics on land cover. Though the older image is obscured by shadows its clear just how devastating the attacks were in the post-911.
