MuirsGhost

We forget so quickly. We used to burn the forests out of indifference and perceived abundance.

By the act of March 3, 1875, all land-grant and right-of-way railroads are authorized to take timber from the public lands adjacent to their lines for construction purposes; and they have taken it with a vengeance, destroying a hundred times more than they have used, mostly by allowing fires to run into the woods.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/the-ame...

it's much more optimal to leave before you become mega rich.

It is almost as if the US provides some kind of useful, taxpayer funded, environment for becoming mega rich....

People don't escape, they toil for a new master, on new ground.

From sea to shining sea, the new world's plundered resources eventually turned into Bitcoin.

Trees are amazing!

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/the-ame...