I often try the mental exercise of imagining away the impact of Man on a developed landscape and seeing what it might have looked like in a different time. It's also why I love dioramas at natural history museums, I think. Thanks for the reflections...
I asked the Proctor forester what impact Indigenous folk had on the 2500 acres we stewarded. Although we saw ample evidence of the white settler from the early 1700s, she did not find any evidence of the Abenaki or Wabanaki tribes, who were inhabitants of those lands. I was back in Hopi and Navajo nation with our kids, and the evidence (pottery shards, arrowheads, fire rounds were everywhere. It’s hard to imagine the settlers just erasing every shred of who was there before contact.
I often try the mental exercise of imagining away the impact of Man on a developed landscape and seeing what it might have looked like in a different time. It's also why I love dioramas at natural history museums, I think. Thanks for the reflections...
I asked the Proctor forester what impact Indigenous folk had on the 2500 acres we stewarded. Although we saw ample evidence of the white settler from the early 1700s, she did not find any evidence of the Abenaki or Wabanaki tribes, who were inhabitants of those lands. I was back in Hopi and Navajo nation with our kids, and the evidence (pottery shards, arrowheads, fire rounds were everywhere. It’s hard to imagine the settlers just erasing every shred of who was there before contact.
maybe they had a much much lighter footprint on the land...