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To: average joe who wrote (21544)	8/12/2001 11:39:29 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I was surprised to see that the fourth largest illegal immigrant population in the U.S. is Canadian. Do you have any thoughts on that? Illegal Entrant Population Estimates in 1998* Country of origin Population All countries 5 million 1. Mexico 2.7 million 2. El Salvador 335,000 3. Guatemala 165,000 4. Canada 120,000 5. Haiti 105,000 6. Philippines 95,000 7. Honduras 90,000 8. Poland 70,000 9. Nicaragua 70,000 10. Bahamas 70,000 Source: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service azstarnet.com

To: average joe who wrote (21544)	8/13/2001 6:23:53 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

Deforestation is another problem. With northern forests regrowth can take a hundred years. The lumber companies here leave a small swath of trees along the roads and highways behind that the landscape is decimated. The forest cover in the US has not been declining much. (in some other areas deforestation is more of a problem). What has been occurring though is that old growth forests have been replaced with "tree farms", with faster growing wood that is cut down and replaced and regrown as fast as possible. Another problem is genetically modified crops. It took mother nature and humans 10,000 years to develop crops that work. Then with gleeful abandon we change it over a course of 10 years. I disagree with you here. Genetically modified crops have been a big benefit and will become even more important in the future. Tim