When we moved to the mountains my son really wanted to see a porcupine. I talked to an oldtimer forrester friend and he said that in the 60s/70s they sprayed to

When we moved to the mountains my son really wanted to see a porcupine. I talked to an oldtimer forrester friend and he said that in the 60s/70s they sprayed to kill all the underbrush to make logging easier and that that changed the fauna quite a bit and that was when porcupine's became uncommon. I thought it sad we thought we were hiking through natural forests but they had been heavily changed by an expedited business practice from a few decades in the last century. We saw everything from otters and beavers to lynx, grizzlies and cougars in our journeys, but never a porcupine.