What does being a "Liberal" mean? (US)

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Yeah I was first amazed by a pamphlet on New Hampshire forests, which said that NH was something like 98% forest in 1700, 20% forest 100 years ago, and 95% forest today. I can't remember the exact figures but it was on that level, enough to be sort of shocking.

I took an ecology course in college and one of the books we read was Changes in the Land. I loved that book, it spends a lot of time talking about just this. There was a series of photographs in there taken from a hillside in Connecticut, I believe. It showed a forested valley, and then rolling farmland and fields, and then a forested valley again. Anyone who has hiked through the woods and seen stone walls should hopefully be aware at how much the land has changed.