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To: ManyMoose who wrote (264017)	6/16/2002 1:54:37 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Er, right, I was definitely referring to the relative density of forests, not of people. When the first Westerners recorded their observations about the land they saw in many of what are now our western states, the forests they observed were much different than the eastern climax forests of deep shade. The western lands - shaped by the natural occurance of fire over millenia, including man-made fire events - had forests that were less dense. In many areas spacing between mature trees allowed sunlight to reach the forest floor, and other areas were even savanna-like. The forests were adapted to fire, unlike the over-dense forests of today.