In 1898, Pennsylvania began buying its barren ‘desert’; a civilian tree army later helped bring its forests back

Long before Pennsylvania’s mountains were known for green valleys, woodland trails and scenic overlooks, parts of the state had been stripped almost bare. By the late nineteenth century, decades of intensive logging had transformed once-thick forests into landscapes marked by exposed soil, abandoned stumps and piles of dry timber waste.

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