Following broad-scale abandonment of farmland, Massachusetts and New England reforested in the last half of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During the peak of deforestation, southeastern Massachusetts was the most heavily forested part of the state.
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1830 data from the Harvard Forest. http://hfgis.fas.harvard.edu/flexviewers/HF1830Map3/ 2005 data -- forested types from the MassGIS 2005 datalayer (Office of Geographic Information (MassGIS), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MassIT). http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/lus2005.html