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It's amazing how quickly a forest can grow back on clear-cut ground. I've written here before about
a National Seashore in Wisconsin that looks like forest primeval today, but was, less than a century ago, a treeless expanse of small-scale timber, fishing, and stonecutting industry.
The same sort of thing happens in New England,
where colonial and 19th-century farms, roads, and fences have been
allowed to disappear beneath a forested landscape — and to disappear
well enough that people often forget they existed, at all. Now, digital
archaeology is helping to uncover these sites once again.
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