Iowa supposedly has more trees than before settlement, but I’d have to believe that has more to do with farmers needing wood and fruit, townspeople wanting shade, and the draining of the great potholes and marshes left by the Ice Age.
“Iowa supposedly has more trees than before settlement”
Going back to the Dust Bowl, conservation efforts encouraged the planting of trees bordering the fields for obvious reasons. This also led to fuller wood lots by farmers for the purpose of animal life shelter, for hunting.
Life is so full of irony when you listen to environmentalists interpret it for us.