Farmland outnumbers trees in Middle America
The United States of America is home to 8% of the world’s woods, with over 228 billion trees. And, as the image shows, such forests are more thickly populated in the northwest and east of the Mississippi River, respectively.
Contrary to common assumption, the average amount of wood per acre has increased dramatically since the 1950s, which is remarkable given how much growth was uprooted when European settlers first came to America. People are more aware of the value of nature than ever before. Michael Bloomberg, the then-mayor of New York, set a goal of planting one million trees in the city by 2017 – and he achieved it!