Chapter 16: The North Pacific Coast

Park La Brea Los Angeles

British Columbia is the largest lumber producer in Canada, supplying about 54 percent of all timber harvested in that country. In the United States, Washington, California, and Oregon together provide more than half of all timber cut, and Washington and Georgia vie for the lead in pulp and paper production. Even though Los Angeles is urbanized so it doesn’t provide lumber, there is a department for urban forest in Los Angeles. 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 Los Angeles. Forested urban parks are a functional and attractive environment for residents and visitors. Natural areas provide shelter for wildlife and offer an escape for park visitors into the semi-wilderness. I believe an urbanized area like Los Angeles needs more of forest areas.

Source: http://www.laparks.org/dos/forest/urbanforest.htm
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