Please tell us you were joking...
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Great article. Thanks for posting!
Sarcasm doesn’t always translate well through text
Yes, some of them.
Nobody does , because it was called the Last Of The Mohicans
It's estimated by forestry experts that, prior to 1492, 90% of the acreage of the Southeast would have been burned over within a span of every 3 to 5 years, due to summer lightning strikes. These would not have been hot, grown-tree-killing forest fires, but fast spreading, low-intensity ground fires that would remove the fallen leaves, hardwood sprouts and saplings, and ground shrubs that had accumulated since whenever the area had burned previously. The ecosystem outside wet drainage areas was longleaf pine over a wiregrass forest floor. William Bartram, the great naturalist of the 18th century, documented seeing deer in herds of 200+ feeding in the open park-like areas under the pines while living with my Creek kinfolk in Georgia. By that point, they were using firearms almost exclusively, so climbing trees may not have been something they needed to do. The climbzble trees would have been in thdcdrai age areas that were too damp to burn, or in second-growth hardwood hammocks that sprouted up in old cleared and cultivated fields that had been abandoned by previous inhabitants of the area (which, btw, is what the Mvskoke name "Tallahassee" means..)
