Contact: Margaret Nagle at (207) 581-3745 The six-state New England region has more than 33 million acres of forestland — a greater wooded cover than has existed in the region in almost two centuries. But recent years have witnessed a reversal of this trend in all the states with a new wave of “hard deforestation” read more Doubling Conservation Efforts in the Next 50 Years Could Ensure New England Remains at Least 70 Percent Forested