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Originally Posted by splitbamboo
I saw a 1910-1920-ish photo of my town and surrounding countryside (suburban Portland). The vegetation was wiped clean. I am convinced there are more trees now (at least in the US) than in the early part of the twentieth century.
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This happened in my neck of the woods too. In the late 19th / early 20th century, almost every tree in the county was cut down to fuel the pig iron furnaces. The state government has since created a sizable amount of state forest lands, but it's weird to see all the trees pretty much the exact same size and age for miles and miles.