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This article has some great visualizations of US land use: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

About a quarter of US land is dedicated to ‘unprotected’ timber. About ten percent of that belongs to one single business - https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/

Agriculture is a little less (about a fifth), pasture is a little more (about a third) - although that includes range land which is barely ‘land use’ at all.

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Not sure where you are getting your math here. From the article: "Weyerhaeuser Co. is the largest private owner of timberlands in the U.S. With 12.4 million acres, the company controls 2.3 percent of all commercially available timber"

We have some Weyerhauser "timberland" by us - I can say they are much more like intensive agriculture than forests. I wouldn't worry about replanting on them - you better believe Weyerhauser uses every square foot of their land to grow trees on.

You are correct, I misread that as 2.3% of US (which is about 10% of 25%), rather than the correct 2.3% of timberland. So, only 2.3% of 25% - or .6% of the US.

Thanks for the fact-check.

beat me to posting that. I do agree its a great visualization.

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