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Cleared area after white pine logging in Minnesota
Minnesota's
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Our Vanishing
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Years passed. People tried farming the cleared areas, but one by one the farms failed and the people moved away. The land started to become forest again -- but not usually white pine forest. The big white pines that were needed for seed were mostly gone.