Another issue that would only be discovered later was that the trees in Australia kept the water table low. A couple of years after the deforestation and farmin

Another issue that would only be discovered later was that the trees in Australia kept the water table low. A couple of years after the deforestation and farming of a plot, the water level would rise, bringing with it salt from deep underground and depositing it on the surface. Effectively this permanently destroys the soil. Not only that, but i believe that the water also disappears a while after wreaking all this havoc. This is just something from a vaguely remembered lesson so i might have forgotten some detail.