Nothing more than personal anecdote, but I've seen pics of where I live in the 50s-70s and can compare it to today.
Land use change probably has a lot to do with it, as there are a lot less sheep eating everything now, but the extreme change of going from shrubland with a few houses and no trees 50+ years ago, to hundreds of houses but you can barely see them because it's all overgrown with trees. Not just planted in people's yards, but growing wild in between properties.
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Nothing more than personal anecdote, but I've seen pics of where I live in the 50s-70s and can compare it to today.
Land use change probably has a lot to do with it, as there are a lot less sheep eating everything now, but the extreme change of going from shrubland with a few houses and no trees 50+ years ago, to hundreds of houses but you can barely see them because it's all overgrown with trees. Not just planted in people's yards, but growing wild in between properties.