Trees are abundant in the state. It's just that so is everything else.
Forests yield more value annually than corn, sorghum or wheat.
Soon everyone will think it, forestry science faculty hopes. Texas has 12 million acres of forest and in terms of southern rankings, compares favorably with a lot of other states. Until this effort by the TAMU foresters, almost 10 years have passed since the U.S. Forest Service last evaluated the state's forests, Smith said. Plus, those reports, which the U.S. foresters no longer plan to take responsibility for due to cost constraints, have not been summarized or released to the public since the field work was conducted in 1992. We hope that this provides timely information for the public and for legislators in order to make good decisions on policies that impact forests.