We bought some forested land with the idea of building a nice place in the woods.

Doing this involves clearning forest.

Humans have cleared a lot of forest.

Wild animal populations are plummeting due to loss of habitat.

While most of this loss is to industrial agriculture, a lot of it is to people building themselves a nice place in the woods.

As of March 2025, we're a year into our first land project and about to undertake a second.

We’re still contemplating what “a nice place in the woods” means to us.

We told a family member we were going to buy a second piece of forest land without having built anything on the first.

“So you’re a gentleman forester now” is what they summarized.

We kinda loved that term.

It's novel enough that the domain was available.

It's not so novel that there hadn’t been at least one article written about it.