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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I read where a great deal of the forest land in the NE US was cut away at some point and now it is back because it is managed well, even with cities encroaching.
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The East Coast was the first part of this country to be settled. The forests were cut down so people could farm the land. Through much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, you can walk through the woods and come to old stone walls that used to mark the edges of farmers' fields.
Now the farms are in the South, the Midwest, and California.
It has nothing to do with good forest management. The weather in those other regions just allows a longer growing season. When the farmers left, the trees grew back.