Look down at a fern, a meadow flower, a sedge tuft or another small plant at your feet and press E. Your hand reaches down and pulls it up, and that spot stays clear for good, after a restart and for everyone in the world. Keep E held and the hand keeps pulling the plants you look at, so you can clear a patch.
It pays what the plant really gives in its season: fern fronds from the bracken for rope, yarrow for bandages, plant fiber from sedge tufts and cattails, and tinder from flowers gone dry, such as aster, goldenrod and corn lily late in the year. Paintbrush, groundsel and lupine came up and gave nothing until October 8, when every pulled plant began to give something and meadow flowers began to give plant fiber.
Woody bushes, like the deer brush under the pines, the low oaks in the granite cracks, sagebrush and coyote brush, need a knife or an axe in your hand and give sticks. With a bare hand you are told they are too tough to pull up.
