Trees

I was curious to know how we are doing in NC with our trees. Do we have more trees than we used to have, or are we losing them? I spoke with knowledgeable state experts on this and learned several things. One, they do not measure ALL of the trees in NC, but cover what they think is about 95% of the total. We probably have more trees here today than we did in the 20s when more of the state was in farmland. In recent years, we may be losing some to development.
The total number of trees in NC is about 15 billion! To make it easy, assume the population of NC to be 10 million. That means we have about 1,500 trees for every person in the state. That strikes me as a real good floor on which we should insist on standing, no?
I wonder how we are doing in Chapelboroham on that point? It would be real interesting to know.