Which plants had nearly all their mature specimens harvested?

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In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond covers a number of cultures that collapsed due to environmental over-exploitation.

I don't have my copy handy but if I recall correctly he attributed the collapse of Easter Island to the cutting of native palm trees.

He also contrasted the relative prosperity of The Dominican Republic to the poverty of Haiti as partly owing to forest management policies.

It's not in the book but I think I similar argument could be made about St Croix (US virgin islands) where they cut all the trees to clear the land for sugar production. After the abolition of slavery sugar production became unprofitable and the island became almost uninhabited. (Am having a hard time finding a source for this as all my searches return touristy results, but I read it when I was on the island).

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