While I was walking around in the woods this past week I thought about how peaceful and old everything seemed. The thing is, the trees and the landscape were not that old. I don't think I saw a tree over 150 and most were less than 100. The canopy was 80-100' in most places. The trees used to be old and huge averaging 5' diameters. Food literally used to fall from the sky because 25% of them were chestnut. Then, in a generation or so, they were gone and few even know if their existence.