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"The Pennsylvania Desert" in 1914.
Most of northwest PA was clear-cut by the beginning of the 20th century. The slash (parts of the tree not harvested) caught fire by lightening strikes, sterilizing the soil, and runoff normally controlled by the forest depleted the land of nutrients. It was a left a barren expanse of thickets.
100 years later, it's a vast forest again. There's even a heard of elk. This is some Horizon Zero Dawn shit.
