News Headline
Study: The forest is getting farther away, especially in rural America
Source
United Press International (UPI)
Publication Date
2017-02-22
Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Every year the forest gets farther away. According to researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, between 1990 and 2000, the average distance between any point the United States and the nearest forest grew by a third of a mile -- 14 percent.