> There were more than enough trees until we developed the technology to clear cut in expeditious manner. Unless you mean 'an axe', way before that there were

> There were more than enough trees until we developed the technology to clear cut in expeditious manner. Unless you mean 'an axe', way before that there were deforested areas where the need for trees was larger than the supply and there were enough humans to fell them. > A few hundred years ago or less, a squirrel could get from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River without ever touching the ground. Yes, but that wasn't possible in other parts of the world much sooner.