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Which detail shows a connection between the impacts of logging and the author's reluctant acceptance of those impacts?
1) It was a piece of forethought to work unceasingly at that time, for soon commerce attacked the swamp and began its usual
process of devastation. Canadian lumbermen came seeking tall straight timber for ship masts and tough heavy trees for beams.
Grand Rapids followed and stripped the forest of hard wood for fine furniture, and through my experience with the lumber men
"Freckles" story was written. Afterward hoop and stave men and local mills took the best of the soft wood. Then a ditch, in reality
a canal, was dredged across the north end through my best territory, and that carried the water to the Wabash River until oil men
could enter the swamp. From that time the wealth they drew to the surface constantly materialized in macadamized roads, cosy
homes, and big farms of unsurpassed richness, suitable for growing onions, celery, sugar beets, corn and potatoes, as repeatedly
has been explained in everything I have written of the place. Now, the Limberlost exists only in ragged spots and patches, but so
rich was it in the beginning that there is yet a wealth of work for a lifetime remaining to me in these, and river thickets. I ask no
better hunting grounds for birds, moths, and flowers. The fine roads are a convenience, and settled farms a protection, to be taken
into consideration, when bewailing its dismantling....

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