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Politics : Politics for Conservatives
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To: garrettjax who wrote (14436)7/25/2013 4:08:49 PM
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more trees growing in the continental US now than existed at the time of the Revolutionary War...

Also more game, sans the large carnivores.

Interesting story about the trees.

Loosely concurrent with Columbus's jaunt, technological advances were allowing a population spike in the British Isles. The peasantry wanted wood to keep warm and the Crown needed huge trees to expand the naval fleet. The Crown made it a capital offense to cut large oaks. That led to to the necessity of learning to pump mines to access coal, quite a story in its own right.

So the first whites arrived here, saw the Indians kept the landscape burned to provide browse and easier hunting. They carried lessons from home about the value of timber and changed long existing practice.

When Longfellow wrote about the forests primeval he was unaware they were only about a century and a half old.
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