Are Americas forests in danger?
Not at all. Because the United States practices reforestation, its forests have actually grown in size over the past century. About one-third of the United States — 747 million acres — is covered with trees. In fact, we have more trees today than we had 70 years ago. And some 4 million more are planted each day. On the nation’s commercial forests, net annual growth exceeds harvests and losses to insects and disease by an impressive 47 percent each year.
