Depends - is it just being cut down? Or is it being actively looked after and regenerated? See a great introduction for regenerative land use and agriculture from Project Drawdown here Solutions | Drawdown. Sector summaries here: Land Use | Drawdown · Food | Drawdown. read more
My personally opinion is that forests and trees are incredible important not only to environment, but also to the ecosystem for all living things surrounding the forests/trees. According to ReThink Wood wood is considered a renewable resource. Forest does not consist only from wood rather biomass and biomass is renewable energy. read more
A renewable resource is a natural resource which replenishes to overcome resource depletion caused by usage and consumption, either through biological reproduction or other naturally recurring processes in a finite amount of time in a human time scale. read more