Got a spare half hour? Landscape features explained.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLQz-oR6sw

Tom Wessels is a terrestrial ecologist and Antioch University New England professor emeritus. He is skilled at interpreting the past land use history, using clues abounding in central New England's changing forests.

Some of the topics covered in the three part videos: New England's stone walls; pillows and cradles; merino sheep craze ("sheep fever"); forests arising on abandoned agricultural land (past hay field vs crop field vs pasture); signs of past wind, logging and fire damage; reading tree stumps; white pine weevils and multi-trunked pines.

It might sound uninteresting, but give it a look: I found it fascinating.