I'm going to do my own investigating but I know Texas' forest are in the east part of the state, not surprisingly. I'm pretty sure most of the southeastern states and for sure Alaska have close to the same amount of forest as California, if not more (Alaska). With the key being it's almost all wetter forested areas, probably to the tune of 2-3x the annual precipitation. Which just means this is the kind of knowledge that would make you leary to post a factually incorrect or, at best, "gray area" message (talking about the twitter post).

Also: If you love the forests, then the absolute best thing for them is carbon dioxide. The earth has actually gotten greener in recent history thanks to it. CO2 is to plants and trees what food is to us. Also, that's no thanks to the western USA. Everywhere east of the Rockies in the US has contributed to this, with the west being on a flat curve over the same time period.

I'm going to do my own investigating but I know Texas' forest are in the east part of the state, not surprisingly. I'm pretty sure most of the southeastern states and for sure Alaska have close to the same amount of forest as California, if not more (Alaska). With the key being it's almost all wetter forested areas, probably to the tune of 2-3x the annual precipitation. Which just means this is the kind of knowledge that would make you leary to post a factually incorrect or, at best, "gray area" message.

Also: If you love the forests, then the absolute best thing for them is carbon dioxide. The earth has actually gotten greener in recent history thanks to it. CO2 is to plants and trees what food is to us. Also, that's no thanks to the western USA. Everywhere east of the Rockies in the US has contributed to this, with the west being on a flat curve over the same time period.

I'm going to do my own investigating but I know Texas' forest are in the east part of the state, not surprisingly. I'm pretty sure most of the southeastern states and for sure Alaska have close to the same amount of forest as California, if not more (Alaska). With the key being it's almost all wetter forested areas, probably to the tune of 2-3x the annual precipitation. Which just means this is the kind of knowledge that would make you leary to post a factually incorrect or, at best, "gray area" message.