[Jaysun]

This is good news! First, trees are a renewable resource. Second, most of these areas are so remote that even the tree huggers can't get to them. Third, there would still be over a million acres of "protected land" (aka unproductive fireboxes) left sitting there. That's a lot of land. To put that in perspective: every man, woman, and child in America could claim a 1/2 acre lot of "protected land" for themselves and there'd still be land to spare.

[Jaysun]

CORRECTION:

Third, there would still be more than one hundred million acres of "protected land" (aka unproductive fireboxes) left sitting there. That's a lot of land. To put that in perspective: every man, woman, and child in America could claim a 1/2 acre lot of "protected land" for themselves and there'd still be land to spare.

Sorry.