{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "59% of Massachusetts is already forest. It's not much of a trade when the agricultural economy in New England was already...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/186368391913/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>59% of Massachusetts is already forest. It's not much of a trade when the agricultural economy in New England was already declining in the 1820s. Rural society was already vanquished before most of the west gained statehood; the conservationist victory in the region is before living memory.</p></div>\n<p>Massachusetts is about 5 million acres in size. Utah alone has 34 million acres of federal land.</p>"}