These lands belong to YOU and all American citizens. Together, national forests and grasslands cover 200 million acres of land. National forests and grasslands provide a lot of benefits to you and all American citizens. Large areas of forest land provide clean water for human use and for other animals and plants. Forests also provide places for you and your family to visit, so that you can do fun things like camping and hiking.
National forests provide trees for humans to use for things like houses, chairs, and baseball bats.
Forests help to keep our air cleaner, and they provide homes for animals that live in the wild. National grasslands also provide benefits to people and other animals. They provide homes for animals and plants that do not grow anywhere else but on a prairie. You can see that by having these large areas of forests and grasslands, you and other people living in the future will benefit by having cleaner water and air, places to have fun in the outdoors, more animals to watch and enjoy, and products to use now and into the future.