A radio host said "USA has more trees today than when the Mayflower landed" Is this true?

I doubt it.





How would the host back up this statement if somebody decided to challenge it?





Just because somebody is a "radio host" doesn't mean that they know what they are talking about!





Besides... there was no USA in 1620 (not even 13 colonies!)


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A radio host said "USA has more trees today than when the Mayflower landed" Is this true?
No
Reply:Thanks to Johnny Appleseed
Reply:that's a good one. if it is true, i'd like to know where these tree are.
Reply:i highly doubt it. Think about deforestation that has been done to make land for houses. You also have to think about how the number of forest fires has increased dramatically over the years
Reply:Well sure, the USA didn't exist then. And it was only 13 colonies for a long time. I bet there are more trees in all 50 states now than there were in the original 13 colonies. Of course, the size of the land mass has changed considerably....
Reply:No, because high-tech logging methods have led to extensive deforestation of large tracts of land. The only way someone could say this with a straight face, as another person wrote above, would be to stretch the definition of "USA" to "the 13 colonies" -- this is known in some circles as "taking refuge in semantics."