In 1998, over 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States that's more than five new trees for each American. There are 747 million acres of forest land in the United States. Ginkgo trees provided food for dinosaurs , and yet they can still be found in backyards today. The single oldest living thing on Earth is a tree, a 4,700 year-old bristlecone pine tree in Nevada. It was growing when the Egyptians built the pyramids.
Trees are a renewable resource.
Sawdust and wood shavings, saved form manufacturing wood products, are recycled to help make paper grocery bags, corrugated boxes, and other products. Thanks to today's new technologies, close to 100 percent of a tree is used with hardly any waste. More trees are grown through replanting and natural regeneration than are harvested in the United States each year. Forests are oxygen factories. To grow a pound of wood, a tree uses 1.47 pounds of carbon dioxide and gives off 1.07 pounds of oxygen .