Native American nations practiced intensive agricultural and ecological management for a very long time before Europeans paved anything. That gets forgotten a lot. There was never a "Pristine old growth natural forest" in America, there have always been people living here, managing the forests and the plains to produce the resources people needed to live.
Native American nations practiced intensive agricultural and ecological management for a very long time before Europeans paved anything. That gets forgotten a lot. There was never a "Pristine old growth natural forest" in America, there have always been people living here, managing the forests and the plains to produce the resources people needed to live.
Humans are invasive species, 100%, but I'd trade the local Walmart for some good ol' hunting the mega fauna to extinction any day