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1. in the United States, we have less than 4 percent of our original forests left."

2. "80 percent of the planet's original forests are gone."

- Both stmts. are correct. They are only "misleading" if you can't read well: it refers to ORIGINAL forests. Our old-growth, cliseral forests have been replaced almost entirely by young stands of trees, nearly all of the same age. They have been turned into tree farms.

to put it simply, our forests have been turned into something like corn fields.

A forest is a very complex ecosystem type, with trees of different species and different age classes (not to mention the thousands of other species that live there).

- too bad legion get his "information" from Faux News. it is a mouthpiece for Rupert Murdoch and has a definite agenda.