Forgotten Trees
2010 • Fort Drum, NY, USA
My Dad owns property in upstate New York and we knew our neighbors all around us. Drilling companies started contacting everyone looking to buy their land to drill for oil. Every few weeks we'd go back upstate and less and less people we knew were there now and the drilling companies cut down most of the trees in the area.
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