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Take the highway through Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest...
...and you'll see breathtaking mountain views, clear lakes
and tall trees. At least as far as the "beauty strip." But take
a look from above (far above) and you'll see that, beyond the strip of
trees left along the highway, there's a different view. In little more
than 50 years, this national forest has been transformed from what you
see on the left to the patchwork of roads and clearcuts on the right.
Giving Americans an accurate view of their national
forests
A picture’s worth a thousand words, and we’re putting together thousands
of pictures. These maps are photo mosaics of smaller aerial shots, “stitched”
together to create a dramatic record of the destruction of America’s national
forests that began in the 1600s and continues today. Working with NASA
and the University of Oregon Department of Cartography, Native Forest
Council is creating similar visual records of national forests throughout
the Northwest.
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