Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai holds a tree that she planted during a visit to an environmental project in South Africa.
The reason Professor Maathai planted trees was to act as a carbon sink and absorb carbon dioxide. The reason the people of the USA 'have to' protect their forests is for the same reason. The sooner there is a moratorium on any declassification of the species on The Endangered Species Act, the better. There has been too much of an assault on The Act already and we don't know how much damage was done by The Interior Department under Norton without a complete inquiry and investigation.
Every forest in the USA is important and every protected species within them even more so.
