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sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

True, but I was referring to copses of trees, creeks, hillsides, slabs of boulder, underground water. Things that are a pain in the ass to farm around so often affect the division of property lines and then the selling rates of land.

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SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.

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- Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.
  
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- sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Does the area you live in not get deforested? We generally pull boulders and whatnot out of the ground when we have to in order to make more sellable plots
  
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  - SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not really, no, though there are logging operations and they sometimes ruin large swaths of land by planting shit like a whole forest of pine where there used to be a healthy mixed forest.
    
    This area is pretty heavily wooded yet, though. The fields that are here are old, generations back stuff with more natural boundaries, rows of wind-break trees between fields and the like, swampy areas left in field corners. We aren’t really adding new farmland here either, in fact there are incentive programs to reforest former farmland.
    
    We do pull stuff out if we are developing the property, sure, but otherwise no, most land is left pretty natural.
    
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    sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I guess I shouldn’t speak for places I haven’t lived, even here in the US. that sounds way less shitty than what I’m used to
    
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JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There wasn’t really any of that out in the prairie.

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- sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There’s plenty of that in the prairie. it’s a pain in the ass. unless you’re living on land so old that generations before you did all the work getting it ready
  
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