Lee wrote:
> > Reforestation efforts in the US have gone so far that we now have > > more trees than we did at the time of our nation's founding. > > I find this hard to believe without supporting facts. The areas where > I live were heavily forested with mature trees hundreds of years ago. > Essentially all of it has been logged. I might believe that the number > of trees today is the same, but they occupy far less land, and are > much younger fast-growing varieties. Yep. I remember reading that it is only true that there are more trees now if you count as "trees" those one foot high seedlings that the clear-cutters replant. Vince
