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TREES ARE GREAT!
Plant a Tree!
Amazing Tree and Wood Facts!
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Trees and wood are amazing! Here are some fun facts you might not have known!
- The oldest known tree in the U.S. is a Western Juniper in California that's 4000 years old!
source: American Forests
- The largest tree in the U.S. is a Giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park, California. This tree has a girth of 998 inches and is 275 feet tall!
source: American Forests
- In the U.S., there are about 747,000,000 acres of forested land -- that's about a third of the U.S.!
source: American Forest and Paper Association
- A wooden pencil can write about 45,000 words, or draw a line about 35 miles long!
source: The Pencil Pages
- The average person in the U.S. uses about 1600 pounds of wood every year!
source: Wisconsin Paper Council
- A healthy, mature tree has about 200,000 leaves!
source: Wisconsin Paper Council
- A cord of wood (a stack of logs 4 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet) could yield: 2700 daily newspapers; 4,300,000 postage stamps; or 7,500,000 toothpicks!
source: Wisconsin Paper Council
Well, that about covers our "Trees are Great" section. Next we're going to take at some critters that love wood so much they could just eat it up !
Termites!
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