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To: DMaA who wrote (227021)	11/5/2007 8:36:08 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (2) of 793900

Ships of the Line took 60 acres of oak trees to build. Related trivia, perhaps true: Wood was the primary fuel source in merry old. The need for developed timber was such that it was made a capital offense to cut certain of the king's trees. This made coal mining a necessity for survival. The coal deposits were happily proximate to iron in an area with good harbors. Our earliest English settlers came from this environment. Alston Chase in Playing God in Yellowstone made the case that indigenous Indians had kept most of N American forests East of the Rockies burned to provide forage and make hunting easier. He claimed that Longfellow's "forests primeval" were less than 150 years old when Longfellow used the term.

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