America’s forests currently produce over 80 million cubic metres of sawn timber a year, making them the largest producers in the world. About 10 per cent of this timber is exported overseas.
Modern forest management ensures not only that felled trees are replaced, but that every year more wood is grown in US forests than is harvested. As a result, the US has more trees today than 70 years ago. 1.6 billion seedlings are planted in the US every year, the equivalent of 4.4 million trees every single day of the year.
