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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (227027)	11/6/2007 10:17:20 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 793916

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. A most excellent book that, among other things, examines the rise of the American environmental movement. I may need to check it out and reread.