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Yes, quite a lot. Tree farms are a real thing, where they grow fast growing softwoods like pine, planted in grids for easy harvesting. These farms are continually planted and harvested just like any other crop.
This may or may not be a good thing, because these farms are monocultures, not biodiverse forests. So while they contribute to tree counts, they aren't contributing to the ecosystem.
Interesting, thanks! I vaguely knew of tree farms, but more for like decorative trees or fruit trees than general purpose ones.
With the OP I was thinking even a monoculture tree farm may be preferable if it reduces destruction of natural, biodiverse forests and allows them to recover where not completely destroyed.
Forestry management is a fascinating topic.
Many commercial forests are treated like row cropped "farms". If you are looking to grow a bunch of trees with straight trunks that grow quickly and all become harvestable at the same time, a tree farm is the way to go.
I have no true numbers to point to (though I'd love to see some), but you could imagine that if you needed to go harvest 1000 trees to send to the mill, and you have to find them in a non-plantation forest, you might have to search through 50 times as much area to get the trees you need. Logging equipment causes a lot of disturbance to underbrush, so you might get less impact on the environment as a whole by just dedicating a smaller area to the crop.
It's the same reasons why we plant food crops in rows rather than intermingled in a forest.
Similar to food farms, tree plantations often take species from completely different geographic areas, so it's important not to treat, for example, radiata pine plantations in new Zealand as wild spaces because they are no more wild than cornfields.
There are different styles of management for different purposes (e.g., pulp wood, construction lumber, hardwood) and the goals of the landowner (e.g., a logging company may want to maximize long term production, while on your own property, you may want to maximize continuous biodiversity).
There are also considerations for terrain and local climate. Hilly country may have bad erosion risks if there is a clear cut. Fire risks play a part. Wildlife may even benefit from clear cuts depending on the situation.
It is preferable, but as demand increases, natural forest is being felled in favor of tree farms.
In the US, at least, deforestation isn't a concern. We have more trees now than when the settlers landed.