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This smells like an old wives tale.
I've looked at a number of sources, and I can't find any historical writing about the trees being the primary store of nutrition.
What I can find is: Soils are poor quality because of glaciation, cash crops couldn't be gown only subsistence crops. This pushed people into timber industries and changed the trajectory of New England from agriculture towards industry unlike southern colonies.
So the trees got used, not just removed for no reason.
Martin Owens 
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Martin Owens
@doctormo@floss.social
Inkscape Programmer and Software Freedom Contractor. Graphics, art, computers, politics, ideas, science. Pronouns: they/them Politics: A socialist... well, a federated pro-social consensualist... er, or something like that. Meme Immunity: Innate rebel, adaptive skeptic, and pro-humility Culture: British, Northern, Industrialist, Riverfolk, Pro-Sustainability, Pie. My avatar image is a cartoon cat in a bowler hat with a spanner and overalls working on a machine.
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