Great topic for spin. We get to count trees planted in vacant city lots, trees planted in area’s that had been clear cut a century earlier. On and on.
Bottom line. Is the total number of trees higher now than EVER before in the US? Maybe. Is there more forested lands in the US now than EVER before, please.....
The comment I made to my grandkids was that there were more trees in America now. I knew what I was talking about and why.
Others changed the discussion...talking about total acrage and implying that my grandkids might think I was untruthful, or didn’t know what I was taling about...I believe that was in fact fom you.
What I told my grandkids is correct...and I stand by it to them and on this thread.
The fact is, we do not need as much forested land to produce the same and more trees. Our population is well over 300 million and the entire contenent is occupied by an advanced, technological society...which was not the case (of course) back then.
BTW, those trees in Boise are not on land that was clear cut. Outside of right along the river itself, there were no trees around Boise , it was arid foothills and range grass, like it is to this day away from the city. Now there are millions fo trees where there were none before (or at least, very few). The same can be sad of virtually any town or city in the valleys of the intermountain west and on the great plains.
As I said, millions of acres...perhapse tens of milions given the whole. So, as I also stated, the acreage itself is on th increase...but not for production or production reserve. We are increasing that without the need for more land.