Old stone walls are an iconic part of New England's countryside — and forests. Here's how scientists are using new technology to learn even more about them.
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Only then do you get close to the length of all the stone walls that used to divvy up New England back in the 1800s, when agriculture dominated the region’s landscape. These unassuming-but-sturdy walls have become so iconic to the New England aesthetic that many city folk who bought country homes or farmland after the Civil War
“The walls that were originally barriers between our fields have become something that binds our region together,” Thorson recently told me. “People in are all nuts about their stone walls.”
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