On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:45:08 GMT, in a place far, far away, Scott
Lowther made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Actually, the US now has more trees than when Columbus showed up.

That seems quite unlikely. New England has more trees than it did
during colonial times, but I'm sure that the US as a whole has been
quite deforested relative to pre-Columbian times (though there is no
shortage of trees here).