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Originally Posted by yekim54
Each year about 1.5 billion new trees are planted in the U.S.A.
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Wow, that's a lot... In the west we are constantly dealing with a problem called "grassland encroachment" -meaning trees are expanding into areas that have historically not been forested.
At least in the Rockies and west, fire suppression has led to more trees than ever before! Unfortunately, they are smaller and more susceptible to disease and most of them are only good enough for pulp... Many of the stands are dead timber boxes just ready for inferno!
... still, there are better uses for them than printing a billion Grisham (or other) books.
