Simplify the following text for a Grade 5 native English-speaking person.
Original: The state has a territory covered mostly by jungle of the Amazon Rainforest , but about three-fifths of the state has been deforested since intensive settlement and logging began in the 1970s , escalating even to this day .
Simplified: The state has a part that is covered mostly by jungle of the Amazon Rainforest . About three-fifths of the state has had the jungle removed since the 1970s .