
Episode 128: The Death of Eastern Forests
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The Dust Balling
Unlike Britain, we're just built different. We could handle it. You can just keep going west, find more trees. By the end of the 1800s, you go from 9 Pennsylvania goes from 99% for us. So down to 30%, which is a lot of work for dudes with axes and saws. That's mostly young for us. There's very extraordinary little old growth force left in the whole state. And so we're doing this for a good while until next slide, please. Famously, the dust balling. Does anyone know what this is? Oh, this is this is a photo. I do fucked up tree bark, but I'm pretending not to know
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