There are more trees in the U.S. than there were 100 years ago

Re:There are more trees in the U.S. than there were 100 year... by claystu on Saturday May 02, 2015 @10:04AM (#9477068)

North Carolina--East Coast state in USA--is basically contiguous forest once you leave the downtown area of our few big cities. Farms and neighborhoods still punctuate the landscape, but any land that isn't routinely maintained by farming and mowing begins to revert back to woods very quickly.

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Re:There are more trees in the U.S. than there were 100 year... by bane on Saturday May 02, 2015 @10:33AM (#9477200)

My guess also, looking at the number of farms-turned-to-subdivisions, parks and green areas along the East Coast, is that better logistics and transport has further improved the efficiency of distributing goods from megafarms in the midwest, making the need for smaller and less efficient traditional colonial-era farms obsolete.

At the same time, the midwest, especially the great plains area, were always tree sparse.

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