By the time of New Vegas, will forests have returned to the world?

It is still likely in unexplored parts of the Wasteland that there is civilization going. Just because Portland, Seattle, Toronto, Richmond, Houston haven't had contact with the NCR that there aren't new nation states forming their. Like one of the posts before me said, if factions can make their own stuff, why scavenge the ruins? This is happening in other places, so either the games will become more focused on themes of rebuilding in a post apocalypse or start having games set early in the series in new locations far enough removed from California to not interfere with the other games.
 
Practically speaking the locations you would target in an all-out nuclear exchange will prioritize military installations (particularly ones capable of launching nukes), then infrastructure, and finally population centers. There's no reason to nuke, say, national parks or farmland (unless you're just missing your target). So the effect the nuclear exchange would have on uninhabited areas would mostly be in weather changes due to nuclear winter that the series posits follows the war. This would result in changes to what species would survive in various locations, but I think it's likely there are forests in the middle of nowhere that are mostly thriving.

Civilization would still be pretty changed in the middle of nowhere, since people's lives will have been changed dramatically from the effects of the war, in that they no longer have power, can't bring in goods from outside their immediate vicinity, and will have good reason to question a lot of the assumptions they had been previously living under.
 
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