Post #1720553
2026-03-25 16:03 UTC
@siderea In contrast to your biology teacher, I remember a bit from one of those endlessly long geology articles they used to run in The New Yorker. I think the one I’m thinking of was by Wallace Stegner. He said that humans can clear cut trees and such, but the only place in the US that bounces back from that easily is New England.
New Hampshire at high altitudes not so much, but otherwise it’s pretty fertile soil in many places. My garden is great. No trees have been there for along time.
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@clew@ecoevo.social 2026-03-26 17:15
@johnlehet @siderea But... Stegner is obviously wrong about this. In the PNW trees come back up everywhere. Ditto in the black soils belt of the South. I would be very surprised if they didn't come back in the Tidewater regions; swamp trees there of course. They don't come back easily in the Plains because the Plains isn't a forest biome. Where else could he have been thinking of?