According to the Society of American Foresters, the United States ranks fourth on the list of most forest-rich countries with 8 percent of the world’s primary forests.

Overall, we have 750 million acres of forest left in the United States. In the early 1600s we had over 1.04 billion acres. That’s a decrease of nearly 28%.

But the good news is that since 1987 we have actually increased the total amount of forest by 12 million acres. That’s less than 2%, but it’s a start.

Another 250 million acres or so, and we’re back to square one.

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