We don't anymore, because we already managed a lot of deforesting in our past. > The 2005 (FAO) Global Forest Resources Assessment ranked the United States as

We don't anymore, because we already managed a lot of deforesting in our past. > The 2005 (FAO) Global Forest Resources Assessment ranked the United States as seventh highest country losing its old growth forests, a vast majority of which were removed prior to the 20th century.[3] >For the 300 years following the arrival of Europeans, land was cleared, mostly for agriculture, at a rate that matched that of population growth.[7] During the 19th century, while the U.S. population tripled, the total area of cropland increased by over four times, from seventy-six million to three hundred nineteen million acres. For every person added to the U.S. population during this period, farmers put another three to four acres under the plow.[8] This trend continued until the 1920s when the amount of crop land stabilized in spite of continued population growth. As abandoned farm land reverted to forest the amount of forest land increased reaching a peak in 1963 of 753,000,000 acres (3,050,000 km2).[4] It was estimated that there were 1,023,000,000 acres of forest in 1630, compared to 766,000,000 acres in 2012.