While Nebraska is primarily known as an agricultural and grassland state, our forest resources are surprisingly substantial and growing. Since 1983, the number of forested acres has increased by more than 500,000 acres to over 1.2 million - that's 352 million trees The total volume of sawtimber has increased by nearly 1.7 billion board feet since 1994, enough to build about 85,000 new homes. Windbreaks, shelterbelts, and narrow wooded riparian strips account for an additional 400,000 acres of tree-covered land. Community forests add hundreds of thousands of acres to our total forest resources.