For anyone looking at this pic and commenting on the tree growth, go walk through Minuteman NHP in Concord, then go drive around the surrounding residential areas. Minuteman NHP was clearcut to make it look like it was in 1775. Before that park was built, there were residential neighborhoods with trees growing between the houses. The rest of suburban MA still has those trees and they keep growing.

There is more total tree biomass in Massachusetts now than 50 years ago.