> > We complain about people on other continents destroying their rain forests, but we are removing forests at an alarming rate. Sure, our forests don't produce oxygen year around like rain forests do, but we may be destroying twice as much.
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> Not really. There are more trees in this country now than there were two and three hundred years ago.

I would tend to agree. Although I wasn't actually walking around counting trees a couple centuries ago, I have seen many old sepia photos of my city/region from a hundred years ago. It's startling at how sparce everything was; the contrast is amazing. Mind you, these are just pictures of areas that are now covered with houses, streets, and other buildings. I can only assume that similar growth would be experienced in more rural, or even remote areas.

Tra "we's gots lotsa dem dare trees" nio