New England Abandoned 12 Million Acres of Farmland — What Grew Back Changed Everything

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🌿 Rewild Your Backyard — Field Guide → https://nature-recode-vault.pages.dev In 1850, 80 percent of New England was cleared farmland. Today, 80 percent is forest. Nobody replanted it. No government programme funded it. The farms were simply abandoned — and 12 million acres of wilderness grew back