To: CholeraJoe
"There's very little wood on the northern plains of the US. Natives used to burn buffalo dung." I've read speculation that there was a Northern Forest there until they burned it too.
13 posted on
08/18/2003 10:26:12 AM PDT by
blam
To: blam
As I understand it, the Native Americans used to set fire to the prairie every spring to encourage growth of new grass to attact the buffalo. Any tree seedlings would be destroyed by the fire.
14 posted on
08/18/2003 10:36:00 AM PDT by
CholeraJoe
(If Rudy Bakhtiar had no teeth, could she still lie through her gums?)
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