Lots of wood available in Texas

[dnix71]

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/story/2012/09/25/texas-drought-killed-300-million-trees-last-year/57840968/1

That's not good. No trees means topsoil lost and flooding when the rains return.

[Tritium]

Not a problem here. Mesquite is quite hardy and not a one was lost. 

Thurmond

[electrondady1]

sorry about your drought
it's been dry here in Ontario as well.
we had some freak warm spells last winter and that led to problems  on our fruit trees
 i need to hire a tree surgeon to cut back  the top of some of my ash trees
they caught   ash anthracnose and have died off at the top.
it's a natural occurrence in the forest but when they tower over your buildings it becomes a bid deal.

until i googled that map,  i don't recall ever seeing  an image of a "forest" from Texas.
in those cowboy movies mostly it looks like a desert or scrub.
in the USA who is responsible for forest management the state or the federal government

[Frank S]

Texas has several forests
 one of the most famous is the East Texas Pinny woods with the Angelina, Sabine, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston National Forests, then there is the one in Big bend national park noted as some of the shortest trees the forest of that area has trees that average in height of only 4 to 6 ft
 then there is the ceder break of the Tx hill country it has nothing in it but scrub ceder and mesquite with a few live oaks http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/main/article.aspx?id=101