The Civil War was a huge step forward to accelerating the environmental destruction of the USA..............The "snowball" of forest removal, habitat destruction and species extirpation mirrored the technology explosion that all Wars engender.................It also quickened the "here and there" siren calls from deep thinking transcendentalists who began lobbying for land protection and environmental consciousness

Sent by rick.meril@gmail.com: The Civil  War's  Environmental  Impact BY TED WIDMER Northern and Southern  armies cut down roughly two million trees. click on picture above for full story Or, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://nyti.ms/1sTOh0Z To get unlimited access to all New York Times articles, subscribe today. See Subscription Options.

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