[QUOTE][B]WS: Messed up facts there, for they are not vanishing, except around densely populated areas for housing. Central American forests are more extensive now than ever before. The climax for the central US ecozones is mostly plains vegetation and scrub trees if left alone. [/QUOTE]
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I suspect that the 'Central America' Quetzal is refering to is that heavily forested tropical region south of Mexico and north of South America, consisting of such nations as Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
I suspect that the region you are refering to must be the great, unplundered wildlands of Oklahoma, Kansas, eastern Texas, and Nebraska.
There is something of an ecological, geographic, and cultural distinction between these two "Central Americas".