[PCA] NEWS: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita Produce U.S.'s Largest Forestry Disaster

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Nov 15 16:13:36 CST 2007


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111501359.html?hpid=topnews

Hurricanes Katrina, Rita Produce U.S.'s Largest Forestry Disaster

By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 15, 2007; 2:52 PM

New satellite imaging has revealed that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 
produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in America -- an 
essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely 
damaged some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana.

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