Does Your Timber Mgt. This takes up 64 percent on the total land acre in the state. Our forests are very important in many ways. They furnish wood to build homes, chairs, desks, beds, and many other products. There are more than 5,000 different products and by-products that come from wood.
Trees are different in size and shape, and in importance.
A tree is a woody plant that is at least ten feet tall when fully grown. It usually has only one stem or trunk with branches at the top. Woody plants that have several stems growing from the ground or that grow less than ten feet tall are not trees. These are called shrubs. Why Forests are Valuable Trees, whether large are small, have value.