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Those are strong words...

"In 1630, the estimated area of U.S. forest land was 1,023 million acres or about 46 percent of the total land area."

"In 2012, forest land comprised 766 million acres, or 33 percent of the total land area of the United States."

Source: US Department of Agriculture

https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/brochures/docs/2012/Forest...

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Not as strong as this:

"We chopped down most of the forests in the US [1] to make farmland. Literally. My home state of Indiana was _literally_ solid hardwood forest 250 years ago. Take a look at it on Google maps sometime."

25% ish. Hardly most of the forrest in the US.

And how much of what remains is remote Alaska?

And how many trees are left in Sahara?

What's your point?

2019 - 250 != 1630

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