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.