by holmes » Fri 19 Aug 2005, 18:25:53
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'I') still remember watching a PBS program on the how the trains would travel down the tracks full of gun toting retards firing away at buffalo...letting them lay to rot.
The amount of wildlife that used to exist in north america is truly astonishing.
Those of us alive now in the 21st century just don't have a clue of what we've lost.
There are common stories from the 1800s of mirgratory birds literally blacking out the sky by their shear numbers.
absolutely.
My uncle has books of whities living with the indians(autobiographies) back inthe 1850's and 60's. it was a game preserve on crack. all you can eat. and the indians used it for over 40000 years. we blew through it like parasitic scum in under 200. any one yapping about how great whity is needs to be shot with a bufflao rifle. Hey thanks for mega mart shit food, wasp forefathers. thank for nuthin. respect our forefathers dammit. yeah right. eat buffalo chips.
I love the buffalo. them and my brothers the birds of prey. out in the southern unit of badlands nP, tr roosevelt NP and wind cave/custer NF Ive done some crazy stuff with the buffalo camping out on whats left of the grasslands. Came close to getting crushed by one once.
by eric_b » Sun 21 Aug 2005, 03:47:16
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'I') still remember watching a PBS program on the how the trains would travel down the tracks full of gun toting retards firing away at buffalo...letting them lay to rot.
The amount of wildlife that used to exist in north america is truly astonishing.
Those of us alive now in the 21st century just don't have a clue of what we've lost.
There are common stories from the 1800s of mirgratory birds literally blacking out the sky by their shear numbers.
Yes, what was lost.
In the dark and graceless age we're now living in, let's consider
for a moment the tremendous resources, both natural and mineral, that
once covered North America.
A land rich in oil, coal and natural gas. Mineral wealth beyond
reckoning. And, at one time, a natural bounty of life that would be
hard for most people alive today to even imagine
And many of these gifts were unique, finite, and exhaustible. Like
the rich prairie soil and Ogallala aquifer, now being exhausted.
from
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')When European settlers landed on our shores they saw what appeared to
be a never-ending forest stretching to the west. That vast forest
expanse was not all old-growth. Wind, fire and insects along with
burning by Native Americans created a patchwork of young and old
forests. However, large tracts of old-growth forests dominated many
of the forested regions.
from
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')Lewis wrote near the White River in South Dakota on September 17, 1804,
"was still farther hightened by immence herds of buffaloe, deer elk
and antelopes which we saw in every direction feeding on the hills
and plains...
Like the buffalo, another example of an amazingly abundant resource completely destroyed in a short period of time.
.we will be africa. we went through fast. we are overindustrialized. africa never was.
