New landfills would destroy forest habitats. Yet over time pollution could destroy forests all together. Chemicals can hurt Vermont's trees. Already the trees are dying do to diseases, such as Dutch elm disease and beech bark disease. Trees are also dying of pollution and clear cutting.
Some trees end up in our living rooms.
Trees take our carbon dioxide and make it into oxygen. If there are no trees, then humans wouldn't be alive. Vermont has 18 billion trees or 62. 7 million cords of wood and the number keeps growing. The rate that trees are cut and cleared has been increasing rapidly over the last 12 years. One third of the trees are sent out of state.