As an aspect that may be worth additional information, from an environmental perspective the Maine landscape cannot be regarded as unspoiled. Maine has been a huge timber state, with many of its forests under “management” as property. In terms of figures, over 98% of Maine’s forests have been cut at one time or the other, mostly some time after Thoreau wrote The Maine Woods, leaving under 2% of the state’s area as old-growth stands of trees.
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