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9moreyears 37 points ago +37 / -0

I heard on a radio show a few weeks ago that California was looking at adopting the "Native American" way of keeping massive forest fires from occurring.

Said "by saying it this way, we won't have to credit Trump...but it's the same thing he proposed"

Today, many scholars disagree that the original inhabitants of the Americas had little impact on the environment. Calling this the myth of the “ecologically invisible” American Indian, critics instead believe that Native Americans altered the land to better suit their needs. Based on archaeological evidence (mainly charcoal deposits and pollen records), in addition to eyewitness accounts by European explorers, many experts now contend that prehistoric people deliberately set fires to accomplish a variety of tasks.

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quietam_uxorem 5 points ago +5 / -0

New England currently has more forest than it did when the Pilgrims arrived. The natives used slash and burn agriculture in many areas.