A Billion to Increase Tree Equity

I notice that a small part of the huge “Infrastructure” bill is a billion dollars to plant trees to increase “tree equity.”  I probably need a professional forester to explain the significance of “tree equity” to me – but looking at my small piece of the west, “tree equity” seems somewhere between impractical and impossible.  Maybe I need a climate activist to correct my thinking – I’m not sure a forester could manage the mental gymnastics.  Foresters tend to be more grounded in the real world.  The little I’ve learned about forests implies that spacing is the biggest part of…