Beyond the Mississippi, however, there were all ready for the breaking plow great reaches of almost treeless prairie, where every stick of timber was precious.
A study at Yale University concluded that if we continue our current rate of deforestation without planting more trees, our planet will be completely treeless within 300 years.
Norway is self-sufficient in renewable energy but there is huge demand from Germany, the UK and the Netherlands, and wind farms in the Arctic Circle are rapidly colonising the few remaining treeless mountain ranges in Finnmark.
The treeless prairies, though open to homesteads, favored the great estate tilled in part by tenant labor and in part by migratory seasonal labor, summoned from all sections of the country for the harvests.