Not good.
"Rising land values have shoved North Carolina well off track with its drive to set aside 1 million acres for preservation by 2009," says the Asheville Citizen-Times.
"Spending on measures that include buying property, development rights and easements have brought in less than half that amount since work started in 1999.
"Advocates say that’s not likely to change — even with the recent $24 million private and public deal that made Chimney Rock North Carolina’s newest state park. ...
"The lag in the N.C. Million Acre Initiative comes at a time when the South is losing more private land to development than any other region. In North Carolina, the rate of development in 2005 was twice that of conservation efforts. ..."
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Still, one thing that people forget about is that the U.S. actually has more trees than we did 100 or even 200 years ago.
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