![]() |
Quote:
|
Quote:
Obviously the 2-headed white deer of great fortune must be seen. Not accounting for self-induced hallucinations.(very bad luck) :eek: |
Quote:
|
Only if it was white.
The whitetail deer in these parts a different than western deer. They're smaller in most places here because of the intense competition for food and minerals. They tend to be larger in farm country. My buddy had a pair of albino fawns in his Lancaster County junkyard about 6 years ago. He told everyone they were off limits but once they wandered off the property they went who knows where. :( |
Quote:
|
I'm not sure "they couldn't do any better" doesn't imply more than at least I intended. Living a nomadic lifestyle before the invention of Winnebagos didn't leave many options. :eyebrow:
|
Quote:
They were forced to live in harmony or starve. |
Yes, I've seen some dissent in passing that says the native americans stripped the land bare in several instances.
Today we have the technology to get resources without doing so much damage. Except for the fossil fuels, in a lot of cases it seems we've come full circle -- getting productive enough to strip the hell out of the land, and then getting productive enough to get those resources without messing things up so much. I read where a great deal of the forest land in the NE US was cut away at some point and now it is back because it is managed well, even with cities encroaching. |
Quote:
Now the farms are in the South, the Midwest, and California. It has nothing to do with good forest management. The weather in those other regions just allows a longer growing season. When the farmers left, the trees grew back. |
The forests in the Northeast belonged to the King and he had them cut and carried off wholesale. The locals were paid to cut and ship them and then left to farm the cleared land.
Trouble is the hilly, rockey, NE was ok for pasture but almost impossible to grow profitable crops. The ones that stayed had dairy farms and several acres of garden to feed the family. The ones that wanted to grow grains went west. When firewood went out of vogue, the forests came back. :biggrin: |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:28 AM. |
Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.