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A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool (2024)

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136 points softwaredoug | 1 comments | 29 Oct 25 23:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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Arubis ◴[30 Oct 25 02:05 UTC] No.45755642[source]▶
I recall a factoid from growing up in southern New England: that Connecticut had more forestland in my youth than it had a hundred years earlier, because so much agricultural land had been abandoned to nature. Presumably farmers wanted soil without an annual stone harvest.
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1. potato3732842 ◴[30 Oct 25 22:41 UTC] No.45766254[source]▶
Reforestation is slowing to a crawl because land owners are realizing that you need expensive onerous permits to clear any serious (1 acre) amount of forested land so they maintain any cleared area whereas prior to the clean water act they let it grow and just cut it if they (or the next owner) had a reason to.