
Not all undeveloped land is in a natural state… a lot of previously cultivated land graduated to being overrun by invasive species so you have like sterile masses of kudzu and forests overgrown with privet that are ecologically useless. Even native species under unnatural influence like ex. fire suppression resulting in areas that would have been regularly burned into say pine savanna with insanely diverse groundcover now instead net you impassable thickets of hardwoods and greenbriars.
Bro the natives settled that land, developed society, then Europeans came and destroyed that to mostly spread Christianity and take over the land, how ironic that the religion that emphasizes morality the most has led to such evil (not hating on Christianity just those who use to to justify evil), and don’t get me started on the Spanish missions where natives were rounded up, beaten, starved, and abused in every way possible, this time purely for religious conversation
Fr, it’s like trying to be both pro-land restoration and anti-hunting at the same time. Ecology is so much more than “just leave it untouched, that’s it natural state.” If you live in the eastern US or anywhere populated out west the chances are a lot of the species that you’re seeing every day are invasive and putting massive strain on the native ecosystem