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Hey, as a fellow Massachusetts guy, you would probably find this study interesting. Basically, they examined soil mineralization in light of the fact that almost everywhere in MA east of the Connecticut was clear cut and tilled as farmland at least once, sometimes twice, since European settlement. They were looking to see the difference between previously tilled and untilled soils and found that actually the biggest factor is the trees and other vegetation currently there. Pines are the worst at blocking nitrogen mineralization, aspen and mixed oak stands are the best at allowing/facilitating it.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225645381_Soil_carbon_and_nitrogen_in_a_pine-oak_sand_plain_in_central_Massachusetts

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