After admitting their estimates were off by a freaking lot they make another
I bet you dollars to donuts there are more trees in the continental US today than when Columbus first came close to North America.
http://www.livescience.com/7725-lost-forests-america.html
“Around the arrival of Columbus, “it’s said that squirrels could travel from tree to tree from the Northeast to the Mississippi without ever having to touch the ground,” said Chris Roddick, chief arborist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York. “In the old growth forests in the Northeast, you had hemlock that were six or seven feet in diameter, chestnut trees 200 feet tall.”
Of course if your name was Rocket J. Squirrel, you didn’t need any stinking trees.