What exactly is deceptive about that?

I guess I know the tree cover isn’t equally distributed, but it’s not necessarily my first thought, either. Pretty human mistake.

Thanks for the interesting and informative comment. I had no idea Indiana was like that. However, I did know that Ohio is similar because I’ve done research on Hocking Hills, and one of the things I read also talked about the park being outside the range of glacial erosion and how, in general, the more southerly areas represent ancient geology.

Hocking Hills is a lovely, if heavily visited, state park in Ohio.

Who we calling deceptive? The GKM was big, but it wasn't "no forests in northern Indiana" big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topical_steroid_withdrawal?wprov=sfla1

It's always weird how people get preconceived notions of what a chart graph or map should be implying and then get frustrated when those preconceptions aren't met because that's not the point of said map graph or chart. I mean nothing in that map implied it was spread all over the state and yet you're angry about it for no freaking reason. And it's such a weird preconception too, I mean who honestly thinks that Landscapes are spread evenly over an area? Anyone who went through Elementary School knows that's not true.

The Woodlands, TX resident. Can confirm, many trees over here. Further east and it's just trees, the ents are migrating.

It's even stranger than that.

There are a fair few trees here. But most of them aren't natural, they were planted. Planted in perfectly straight, compass-axis lines that run for about a kilometer each, slicing the plain into a giant square checker pattern.

picture a 60 mph / 100 kmph road with one lane on each side winding between endless hills covered with medium height yellow grass and dotted with the occasional grazing cow, elk, etc.

That's what most of the state looks like in my experience. Pretty beautiful.

It's got it's own beauty in a way. Soft rolling hills and an endless horizon.

My family drove through Kansas once when I was a kid, and yep, the Great Plains are kinda rough on the head if you aren’t used to open grasslands. It’s like being on the ocean but grassland instead of water. Just grass and land as far as the eye can see

I grew up there, it’s a tundra/prairie biome. I grew up in the he’ll creek formation area though so lots of buttes. Any trees were largely planted by settlers.

It’s quite beautiful in its own right. Just avoid the eastern part of the state, that bits flat as a board and about as boring.

In the fall the Farmers harvest their corn and soybeans. We live in a very flat are. In the winter you can see the frozen dirt all the way to the horizon.

The only reason Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are so low is because of the massive farms. They were originally all forest.

Alabamian here, it's nothing but trees here, I haven't seen open land in years

The forests are one of the few things left to love about my godforsaken state (WV).

Apparently the Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada is the largest U.S. National Forest reservation outside of Alaska

Not quite the forest most people picture

...they're pretty great but they're also pretty plain...