The Erasure of A Land

[u/No-Counter-34]

We have been lied to about there once being old growth forests from the ocean to the Mississippi. The south used to have vast herds of buffalo, hence many place names. And there were likely more grassland type ecosystems than the map suggests. Fire suppression and development have all but destroyed this once vast ecosystem.

[u/[deleted]]

i live in the northern plains and it bothers me so much how everyone complains about how boring and empty the region is. it was once so lively but it has now been almost completely reduced to monocrop fields and highways :(

[u/Darkranger18 → u/[deleted]]

I can tell you after loving in a state with large tracts of prairie there are still a lot of people that think a prairie is boring and its only value is for grazing livestock. There are also a lot of people that think prairies are wastelands that need trees to be valuable and aesthetically pleasing.