Add to this the thousands of farms that have grown back towoods since the Civil War, and you have the most forested state, by percentage,in the United States. But the “uninterrupted forest” that Henry David Thoreaufirst saw in the 1840s was never exactly that. Loggers had cut it severely,European settlers had gnawed into it, and, much earlier, native people had lefttheir mark. This book takes you deep into the past to understand the present,allowing you to hear the stories of the people and events that have shaped thewoods and made them what they are today.