Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940's

Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940′s, and that today we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.

In the United States, which contains 8 percent of the world’s forests, there are more trees than there were 100 years ago. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s. By 1997, forest growth exceeded harvest by 42 percent and the volume of forest growth was 380 percent greater than it had been in 1920.” The greatest gains have been seen on the East Coast (with average volumes of wood per acre almost doubling since the ’50s) which was the area most heavily logged by European settlers beginning in the 1600s, soon after their arrival.

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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940's