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It felt really strange, and then suddenly cathartic, to be a plant and wildlife enthusiast holding a saw to a tree's bark, ready (and kind-of-pretty-happy) to destroy it. But then I looked around. Underneath this tree, among its leaves, or on top of its branches - nothing lived or moved. It had grown tall and thick enough to crowd out all competing growth around it, reducing life in this section of the forest to almost nothing. The effect of this tree was clear: we had walked