Pictures from the turn of the century show 10 to 20 trees per acre and now there are "upwards of 100 to 200 trees,"
The turn of the century was notably a period of incredible environmental devastation. People would literally form small stock companies for the purposes of chopping down thousand year old trees and splitting the profits from them, and to add insult to injury the stumps were used for outdoor dance parties. In most of America the oldest trees you can find are ones that were planted as decorations in cemeteries, reason being that every single wild tree in the area around them was felled. In the western half of the country old growth forests were something of a gold rush, inspiring massive logging operations that did untold damage to the environment and was only stopped by the creation of the environmentalist movement to oppose it, though by that point most of the damage was done.
The turn of the century was notably a period of incredible environmental devastation. People would literally form small stock companies for the purposes of chopping down thousand year old trees and splitting the profits from them, and to add insult to injury the stumps were used for outdoor dance parties. In most of America the oldest trees you can find are ones that were planted as decorations in cemeteries, reason being that every single wild tree in the area around them was felled. In the western half of the country old growth forests were something of a gold rush, inspiring massive logging operations that did untold damage to the environment and was only stopped by the creation of the environmentalist movement to oppose it, though by that point most of the damage was done.
We really are living in the post-apocalyptic wasteland left over after we massacred the indigenous nations. holy shit. :deeper-sadness: