Dear HCN,
Thanks for the meaningful
comparison of land areas in the Quincy Library Group article (HCN,
10/13/97). I am tired of HCN writers’ comparisons of land areas in
the West to small states in the East. They only serve to remind us
that there are some dinky states which are similar in size to many
of our Western counties and national forests.
The
comparison of the Sierra Nevada Range 2.5 million acres to
Yellowstone National Park is meaningful because most of us in the
West have visited Yellowstone and have a good idea of its size.
However, you do need to get your numbers correct. The park is about
2.22 million acres in size; not much smaller than the 4,000 square
miles of the Sierra Nevada
Range.
Don
Jackson
Bozeman,
Montana
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