Which detail shows a connection between the impacts of logging and the author's reluctant acceptance of those
impacts?

(2) It was a piece of forethought to work unceasingly at that time, for soon commerce attacked the swamp and began its
usual process of devastation. Canadian lumbermen came seeking tall straight timber for ship masts and tough heavy
trees for beams. Grand Rapids followed and stripped the forest of hard wood for fine furniture, and through my
experience with the lumber men "Freckles" story was written. Afterward hoop and stave men and local mills took the
best of the soft wood. Then a ditch, in reality a canal, was dredged across the north end through my best territory, and
that carried the water to the Wabash River until oil men could enter the swamp. From that time the wealth they drew to
the surface constantly materialized in macadamized roads, cosy homes, and big farms of unsurpassed richness,
suitable for growing onions, celery, sugar beets, com and potatoes, as repeatedly has been explained in everything I
have written of the place. Now, the Limberlost exists only in ragged spots and patches, but so rich was it in the
beginning that there is yet a wealth of work for a lifetime remaining to me in these, and river thickets. I ask no better
hunting grounds for birds, moths, and flowers. The fine roads are a convenience, and settled farms a protection, to be
taken into consideration, when bewailing its dismantling....