24.) Photograph: “Roadless Area Distribution.”

Source Notes

Title:

Roadless area distribution.

 

Summary:
A graph provided by Heritage Forest Campaign displays the U.S. percentages of designated wilderness, threatened forest areas, and areas that are provided for drilling, logging, and mining.

 

Topic:
Forest distribution.

 

 

 

 

Category:
Image/ Institutional.

 

 

 

 

What is it?
Photograph.

 Publication Information:
Published by Our Forests on May 13^th, 2005.

 

 

 

 

Author:
No author listed.

 

 

 

 

Location:
www.ourforests.org/graphics/piechart_large.gif

 

 

 

 

Accessed:
February 25^th, 2009.

 

Support:

This pie chart was created by a non-profit environmental organization called the Heritage Forest Campaign and is used in juxtaposition with an article entitled “The Roadless Area Conservation Rule.” The image is intended to inform the reader of the exact distribution of forests to different interests such as conservation and resource extraction.

 

 

 

 

Audience & Agenda:
Ourforests.org is a non-profit organization that is funded by donation and private interest groups. The site contains information on national forest conservation—primarily past and recent present news on the Roadless Rule Conservation Act. The site attracts 21,632 U.S monthly people and attends to a more educated, slightly more female than male audience.

 

Usefulness:
This pie chart provides hard numbers to display the United States percentage of designated wilderness, threatened forest areas, and areas open to drilling, logging, and mining. The distribution is as follows: threatened areas are 31%, designated wilderness areas are 18%, and drilling, logging, and mining areas are 51%. This image gives the audience an idea of how much land is unprotected by the federal government and how much is already in use by logging, mining, and drilling contractors.

 

 

 

Works cited:
www.ourforests.org

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