I’m more familiar with I-44, southwestern & northern MO: vast tracts of land covered by Black Forest-tier tall straight trees.
Tablerock lake is nice, Branson, though skeeters as big as bumblebees.
How long would it take for those trees to grow back? Around here, it takes about 17 years from seedling to a pulpwood cut and 25 years for a sawlog cut. Barring any droughts.