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The Great Raft on the Red River
- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoHow can they know how old it was? A 500 year old log jam on the face of it seems implausible.
- lordnacho 11y agoNo idea if they knew about this at the time, but you could take the tree ring widths and correlate them with historical records from nearby forests.
- ngoldbaum 11y agoThis article, linked from Wikipedia's page on the Great Raft, offers a much more detailed and informative discussion of European and Native American interaction with the raft: https://www.invasiveswatch.org/site/GreatRaft/History.aspx https://www.invasiveswatch.org/site/GreatRaft/History.aspx
- dang 11y agoOk, we changed to that from http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/790 http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/790. Thanks!
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- curtis 11y agoThat is a better article. I'd have submitted it instead if I'd found it last night. One interesting fact that neither article mentions but which is mentioned at the end of the Wikipedia article is the impact that the break-up of the Great Raft had on the Mississippi river. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Raft#Consequences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Raft#Consequences The removal of the log jams hastened the capture of the Mississippi River's waters by the Atchafalaya River and forced the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the multibillion dollar Old River Control Structure.
- stuaxo 11y agoIs there a chance it could ever reform naturally ?