In 27 years the amount of land that has been cleared has almost tripled. We need to make changes now to stop this trend.
In this pie graph, it shows that the most common reason for deforestation is to get more land for cattle ranches. As the population has increased over the years there has been a higher demand for cattle ranches and land to expand into.
Over the years the total forest area in the United states has decreased very drastically. The reason the forest area in the United States has gone down is because they need more room to build cities and roads for all the new people due to the population increasing rapidly.