Which excerpts from “Natural Beauty at Risk” most accurately reflect the information shown in Figure 5? Select all that apply.
In many cases, National Parks were created to protect the remaining forests and their ecosystems from further destruction and fragmentation.
Starting with European colonial settlers and marching through four centuries of development, drought, and fire, the tree cover of North America became fragmented.
Scientists still debate the topic, but one thing is clear: today’s forests in the eastern United States bear little resemblance to post-glacial forests.
Up until about 18,000 years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered Canada and much of the eastern United States.