After celebrating National Forest Products Week (Oct.19-25), we should be proud that, according to Forest America, the U.S. is the world’s largest supplier of forest products. Our forestland has remained constant at 755 million acres for the past century. We have 20 percent more trees today than we did on the first Earth Day in 1970. The volume of wood on U.S. forestland has doubled since 1953.
This success has required generations of forest landowners who are devoted to the best management and stewardship of their lands, in order to sustain their production for the long term. That’s one of the reasons why today, the volume of annual net timber growth is 36 percent higher than the volume of annual timber removals. It’s no accident that private forest landowners plant more than 4 million trees per day – or more than 2.5 billion trees per year.
Following our celebration of National Forest Products Week, let’s recognize the contributions of the millions of private forest landowners and their sustainable practices that ensure that our forests remain national treasures.
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