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 14 hours agoThat 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.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 13 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.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 13 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
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 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.