New England had almost completely lost its forests by the 1800s after centuries of logging. Then nature slowly reclaimed the land in one of history’s greatest forest recoveries, covering about 60% of the region once again | World News
By the mid-1800s, much of New England had been stripped of the forests that had once blanketed the region. Centuries of logging, expanding farms and growing settlements transformed vast woodlands into open fields and pasture. Yet over the next two centuries, an extraordinary environmental turnaround unfolded. As farms were abandoned, people migrated west and nature…
