The closest I found was this: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/apr99/925148125.En.r.html 'It is difficult to answer your question. Most of the trees that are used to make paper are cut down for lumber, rather than paper, production. The parts that are not useful to the lumber mill are sent to the paper mill. Many trees are farmed spefically for paper production in fields just like corn or wheat or any other crop. Much of the paper industry's pulp comes from recycled paper. A very small number of trees are cut down for paper production alone, but this number is far from the tonnage of paper produced by the world today. When you waste paper, you should be thinking more of the landfill space that is wasted, or the water, chemical, and energy resources required to recycle the paper. This has much greater environmental significance than a number of fallen trees.' Further it needs to be pointed out that most of the lumber used is grown in farms. The reality is that houses are not built like they used to be. In earlier times local trees - usually hard wood varieties like popular, oak, hemlock, etc were cut down and used for houses. Now days pine and fir is grown in tree farms, harvested and then used to build houses, the left overs (scraps, sawdust, etc) is used for manufactured products like MDF, OSB, Plywood fill and a chunk of that is sent to pulping mills where it is mixed with recycled papers and other materials such as wheat stalks, corn husks and other material which makes up the bulk of most paper used in print today. Since the mid 20th century the number of trees and the size of forests have increased in the Western World (USA, Europe) Due to conservation efforts and the move from clear cutting "virgin" forests to planting and raising trees for use, we have made wood a sustainable resource. The Loss of Amazonian jungle is not for the wood - most of that is being burnt away to clear large areas of land since it is "cheaper" than using modern farming practices where soil conservation is used to sustain farms on the same land area. The USA went through its period of "very bad farming" Especially during the age of Cotton where the soils were stripped and basically killed. In cases of exotic woods like Teak, Ebony, etc - there are tree farms being planted/raised right now which will provide all and more of our needs in future. However hardwoods take decades to a full century in some cases, to grow to harvesting size. Unlike Pines and firs which can be harvested in 12 years to 20 years.

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