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checkout the actual forest in Google Maps[1]. If you check the historical imagery in Google Earth Pro, you'll see that sometimes between the end of 2017 and the start of 2018 most of the trees kinda disappeared. I dunno if the forest was cut down or if they just stopped watering it, but its pretty much gone now

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/7mtZYS1v5588fdeYA




If anyone else wonders what those green circles are (when you zoom out just a bit more: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/453pj2/wha... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation)




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