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Harlan Weikel, of The Naked Vegetarian, emailed me today with a great idea. Since our national forests are to be auctioned off, Harlan thought it would be a great idea to use Greener Magazine's Greener Earth Maps idea to map out all of the areas that are at risk of being sold using satellite photos. Harlan:

I enjoy mapping and it occurred that perhaps our readers would get more up at arms over this deal if they could see actual satellite photos of these beautiful pristine areas before they're sold off and, as you say, a Wal-Mart goes up. I've taken the liberty of attaching a screen shot from the mapping page to show you what it looks like. The shot is of the Bitterroot in Montana, which is the first PDF map on the USDA page linked in your article.