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The permit said temporary , six years ago. The chain-link fence has rusted. The gravel lot is now a de facto truck depot. Nobody remembers who approve...
Land conversion decisions are rarely permanent. A forest cleared for soy might revert to silvopasture in a decade; a drained peatland might be rewette...
A pine plantation rotates every 25 years — nothing under it but needles and silence. Down the road, an oak-hickory forest that has turned over twice i...
When a cornfield becomes a subdivision in eighteen months, no one holds a funeral. But something dies anyway: the memory of what was there. Land-use c...